The tradition dates back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when scholars and nobility gathered in the gardens at Prince Gung's ...

Peking Opera is an important part of China's cultural heritage. Shi maintains that it is important to keep the art moving ...

Peking opera is transmitted largely through master-student training with trainees learning basic skills through oral instruction, observation and imitation. It is regarded as an expression of the ...

Peking Opera is one of the oldest and most popular forms of traditional Chinese opera. We watch young students at the capital’s prestigious Peking Opera School practising for a performance in ce ...

The outsider might think of Chinese Opera as a Chinese version of Opera; just singing and dancing to the music with the ...

BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Yanxia, a renowned Peking opera artist, died from an illness at the age of 97 in Beijing on Wednesday, according to the Jingju Theater Company of Beijing.