Written in 1598, the same year as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion" tells the tale of Du ...

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese performer He Hongqing can change his facial expressions, and make up, on stage in a flash, but it's not due to skills learned at drama school. The man deemed China's ...

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema, which began in 1905 with the film “Dingjun Mountain.” Fittingly for a country with a rich, centuries-old opera tradition, this first domestic ...