Editor's note: Peking opera, a performing art that integrates singing, reciting, dancing, acting and acrobatics with instrumental accompaniment, is regarded as China's national opera. In 2010, it was ...

In the backstage of the Mei Lanfang Theatre in Beijing, Jiang Meiyi, a young performer from the National Peking Opera Company ...

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 ...

Alyssa, 7, gets har face painted as members of the Taipei Li-Yuan Peking Opera Theatre visit the Dr. Phillips YMCA summer camp as part of their community cultural outreach program, on Thursday, August ...

Five young female students at the Shanghai Theatre Academy have become online celebrities by singing pop songs to the tunes of Peking Opera works. Numerous netizens who have watched footage of the ...

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 ...

Peking Opera master aims to push the boundaries of traditional theater with shows that give the old art form a modern feel. Chen Nan reports. Some members of the audience are thrilled, shaking their ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the scale of big-budget tentpole releases rises, Chinese productions are seeking out companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan to split the bill. A typical example is director Chen Kaige's "Mei LanFang," ...