As we all know, there are four types of role in Peking opera today - namely, the sheng (male role), dan (female role), jing (painted face) and chou (clown). The sheng is the male protagonist ...

From 7 to 17 April, an exhibition will unfold, mapping the four archetypal figures of Peking Opera – Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou – across layers of silk and pigment, rhythm and voice. Visitors will ...

To understand the patterns on the faces and that they represent, we should introduce the four kinds of central characters in Chinese Opera; “Sheng”, “Dan”, “Jing”, and “Chou”. Therein, Sheng ...

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 ...

Peking Opera is not only a mode of cross-cultural communication, but also an emotional bond that connects overseas Chinese with their ancestral homeland. Peking Opera performer Zhang Yanyan has been ...

Hollywood studios censor themselves to appease Beijing, refusing to release films that paint China in a negative light. Meanwhile, Shen Yun, an organization dedicated to preserving authentic ...

who was played at the time by James Scott — was a lesson in uncomfortable history for Dan Feuerriegel, who has played EJ since 2021. In the years since the actor assumed the role, Feuerriegel ...

This marks the first time that DeepSeek, which was established by tech entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng in 2023, has published job openings for product manager, product design and visual design. The ...

But the boom has also made the sector increasingly crowded in Hong Kong, said Shen Meng, a director at Beijing-based ... Its logo features the figure of a huadan, a young woman in the Peking Opera.

Ma, who launched the festival along with Shen, shared her early experience ... Academy of Drama and finishing an advanced program at Peking University, Ma joined the popular comedy troupe Mahua ...

Jing Yang was a Hong Kong-based senior correspondent ... After he appeared to fall out of favor with Beijing, the Chinese tech mogul has visited a Japanese lab specializing in farmed tuna and ...