Author: Xu Chengbei
Publisher: China Intercontinental Press
Keywords: series, china, cultural, opera, peking
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 2003-10-31
ISBN-10: 7508502566
ISBN-13: 9787508502564

With a history of more than 200 years, Peking Opera is not a native opera of Beijing, but a new opera type formed by inter-exchange between Hui troupe actors and Han melody actor that came from south to Beijing as well as absorbing the merits of several other operas popular in Beijing then. Peking Opera rooted in Chinese culture is quite different from Western drama. For first-time foreign viewers, Peking Opera is hard to understand. But as long as you are willing to explore and understand the artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of Peking Opera, you will find everythig about it