She is also familiar with the folklore and legends associated with Chinese holidays. "When I composed the music for The Big Swim, I relied heavily on my knowledge of the zodiac animals' unique ...

A Peking Opera production, titled A Straw-Cloaked Life in Mist and Rain, about poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), opens the recent Xiqu Opera Black Box Festival in Beijing. CHINA DAILY ...

Chinese New Year is a time for celebration, renewal and reflection. It celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. The special occasion marks the end of ...

A series of live performances of traditional Chinese opera is being staged from Feb 3 to 10 at Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center. Art troupes including Beijing Quju Opera Troupe, the China ...

A Gourmet Chinese Cuisine (formerly known as Chuan Lu Garden) Credit: Matt Keller Lehman For Joyce Cai, the past 12 months have combined the drama of a Real Housewives episode with the identity ...

Older generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay Area revel at the sight of traditional Chinese opera performances. But younger folks? Not so much. That's why several San Francisco teenagers launched ...

Horses played crucial roles in ancient China – in the military, transport and agriculture. People of different social classes interacted with and observed the animals, drawing inspiration for the arts ...

Jing Shao Nian students perform an opera at the Mary Helen Rogers Senior Community Center in San Francisco in 2025. (Jing Shao Nian via Bay City News) Older generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay ...

Once every decade, villagers in Kam Tin build a nearly 30-metre (100-foot) tall bamboo structure – large enough to hold almost half the capacity of the Hong Kong Coliseum – to stage rituals and ...

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Composer Huang Ruo long dreamed of adapting the classic Chinese tale “Journey to the West” and its mythical character the Monkey King into an opera, but thought that ambition was a pipe dream. “I grew ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by After more than a decade in Europe, James Gaffigan is returning to the United States to take over one of the nation’s highest-profile opera houses. By ...