At 10, she enrolled in a local arts school at her father's suggestion. "I had no grasp of Peking Opera then, I just adored the actresses' dazzling headdresses," she recalls. "That childish ...

Q: Where can you enjoy Peking Opera and Chinese tea in Beijing? Storytelling, Peking Opera and tea, you can enjoy all this at the newly opened Beijing Qianmen Dawancha Opera Tower. Standing to the ...

Huang Li went to art school at the age of 13 to learn how to be a face-changing Sichuan Opera performer against the wishes of her parents. In their opinion, the prospects were grim in the ancient ...

1988 Hong Kong film follows Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the Peking opera school in Kowloon whose pupils included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Painted Faces is a dramatised biopic of Yu Jim-yuen ...

Renowned for its graceful movements, poetic lyrics and elegant melodies, Kunqu has had a profound influence on many regional opera styles in China, including the more widely known Peking opera.

Zhou Li portrays Qin Liangyu in a classic Peking Opera piece.[Photo provided to China Daily] Nearly every month, Zhou Li, deputy director of the Chongqing Peking Opera company, leads her troupe to ...