Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting, currently appearing in The Masked Heroine, started training in the art form in her ...

Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her other leg high and grasps the ...

Fireworks lit up the midnight sky over Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, the Juyongguan Great Wall in Beijing, China, and the Lotte World Tower in South Korea.

Wu said the holiday data suggests a "strong start" for the tourism industry in 2026, but emphasized that the sector is moving ...

Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul were among the latest cities around the world to ring in the New Year. Beijing staged a ...

Scenes from Farewell My Concubine, performed at Shanghai Oriental Art Center on March 14, starring Shi Yihong as Yuji. CHINA DAILY Throughout her illustrious career, 53-year-old Shanghai native Shi ...

Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...

SCHENECTADY — Linghui Tu, director and creator of “Journey of Love and Hope,” may have a seat front and center for rehearsal. But when something excites her — which is frequent — she is quick to bound ...

Gerda Wielander received funding from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct research for her book Christian Values in Communist China (Routledge 2013). Chinese authorities ...

Fifteen years after its premiere, Xiaogang Ye’s opera “Song of Farewell,” dubbed as the first Chinese opera addressing LGBTQ+ psychological dimensions, has re-emerged with renewed vitality through a ...

Chinese opera is an important feature of the country's art and culture, with a long history and diverse elements such as literature, music, dance and martial arts. The ninth Chinese Opera Culture Week ...