"Hao! Hao! Hao!" shouted the audience, to express their appreciation. They were saluting a Peking Opera performer who had just finished a marvelous "qiangbei," a movement in which he twirled himself ...

He hobnobbed with Charlie Chaplin. He was on good terms with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. His work deeply impressed theatrical visionaries like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht. The man ...

Jingju, with a history of more than 200 years, is a synthesis of music, dance, and acrobatics and is widely regarded as a symbolic expression of Chinese culture.[Photo/Xinhua] A well-established ...

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Using modern sound, light and digital stage effects, China's traditional Peking Opera is appealing to young people in a fashionable and innovative way, as the classic art ...

Concordia theatre student Natasha Perry-Fagant is playing the role of the goddess Thetis in the Theatre Department’s upcoming production of Peleus and Thetis. In this blog entry, she recounts the ...

Jingju, with a history of more than 200 years, is a synthesis of music, dance, and acrobatics and is widely regarded as a symbolic expression of Chinese culture.[Photo/Xinhua] A series of 44 classic ...

The Jingju Theater Company of Beijing is performing 20 of the best operas in its repertoire for audiences until Sunday. To inherit, promote and develop Peking Opera and effectively conserve ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company (Peking Opera) will bring "The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan" ("Hamlet") to life at 8 p.m. Friday (Sept. 23). This performance is presented by Purdue ...

The writer of the article appeals for renaming Peking Opera its Chinese Pinyin form of “Jingju,” from People’s Daily: As China is quickening its tempo going global, cross-cultural communication has ...