Tang Chengxiang Wang Yun, gave birth to the three women, the big queen Jinchuan, married Sulong Guanju the Ministry; the two queen silver Kushiro with Wei the tiger, Hyobu assistant minister; three ...
The Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Music are delighted to present a series of in-person workshops during Wintersession hosted in collaboration with the Princeton University ...
When a staging of the classic Chinese opera “Farewell My Concubine” performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Company sold out at Princeton University in September 2017, Jianping Mei, a 1990 graduate ...
The story is taken from Yuan Dynasty Zaju The Pot Ghost That Cries Foul. A merchant, Liu Shichang, is murdered by Zhao and his wife. To leave no trace of this bloody murder, the couple cremates his ...
The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.
SHANGHAI — Princeton University undergraduate Kathy Zhang has spent three years poring over classics textbooks, but on Monday morning, she started a class of a different kind: Peking opera. From Aug.
From time to time, the secrecy that shrouds Red China is parted by events, and between the curtains the world suddenly gets a glimpse of what Peking’s potentates are about. Last week was one of those ...
NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - With lavishly embroidered costumes, elaborate makeup and acrobatics, a troupe of nearly 90 singers, actors and musicians of the Peking Opera begins a special U.S. tour on ...
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 ...