BEIJING — The curtain is about to fall on Beijing’s oldest opera house, as China’s unstoppable push for development forces the closure of the Ming Dynasty Peking Opera stage at the Guanghe tea house.

A Peking Opera (or jingju) actor puts on face paint at the Zhengyici Playhouse in Beijing on March 4. With the recent revival of interest in traditional Chinese culture, the national company CNPOC and ...

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After sharp criticism of the Education Ministry’s plan to introduce traditional Peking Opera curriculum in schools, the government reassured the public that the program wouldn’t be mandatory. Critics ...

Peking Opera actress Ding Yunyun shows a movement to students at the Linheli Primary School in Beijing's Tongzhou district. Photos by Zhu Xingxin / China Daily Hundreds of primary students embrace the ...

London Chinese Radio’s New Sounds of China music podcast has reached the end of its second season, hosted by music journalist and musicologist Paul Kendall and guitarist, vocalist and Beijing opera ...

(HawaiiNewsNow) - Beijing Opera is coming to the University of Hawaii. "The White Snake" is a lavish production filled with music, drama and martial arts battles. Frederick Lau, the show's musical ...

Around 50 expats living in Beijing, including diplomats, chamber of commerce personnel, foreign journalists and students, attended a Peking Opera salon staged by the Fenglei (Wind and Thunder) Opera ...

Fang Yulin, once a celebrated Peking Opera performer in China, now works at a Long Island nail salon. Filmmaker Guo Haitao is making a documentary about him called “A Peking Opera Master in New York.” ...

BEIJING — When “The Legend of the White Snake” opens Wednesday at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, an American audience will get its first glimpse of Zhang Huoding, one of China’s biggest ...