Around 70 expats living in Beijing, including embassy staff, international chamber of commerce personnel and students, attended a Peking Opera salon on Saturday to get a taste of traditional Chinese ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...

A Peking Opera actress applies makeup backstage before a show in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) Duke's Cam Boozer and UConn's Sarah Strong win Wooden Award, wrapping ...

The release ceremony of 100 Peking Opera Classics in Beijing also features a performance of the genre. Liang Yue / for China Daily Celebrated Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang (1894-1961) would probably ...

Although there are more than 360 ancient local operas in China, Peking Opera is known as China's national opera, despite its comparatively young 200-year history. Although it is called Peking Opera, ...

An exhibition, at downtown Beijing's Star Theater, presents Peking Opera through contemporary arts. Bringing together about 40 works from 9 Chinese artists focusing on the old art form, the exhibition ...

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company, is applying her makeup and dressing for the upcoming performance. As the ...

BEIJING – “Why are you going to a Peking opera? It’s slow, boring and you can’t even understand what they’re saying half the time!” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

Editor's note: The hope for the China-U.S. relationship lies in the people, with grassroots connections as its foundation. While the two countries have experienced ups and downs in their bilateral ...