Athree-hourChineseKunquoperaadaptationoftheclassicFrenchromance"TheHunchbackofNotre-Dame"hasmadeitsdebutattheHangzhouTheaterineastChina'sZhejiangProvince.Kunqui
WhenBritishpeopleweremarkingthe400thanniversaryofthedeathoftheiriconicwordsmithWilliamShakespearein2016,theirChinesecounterpartswerepayingtributetoanequallybril
China's Kunqu Opera Theater celebrates its 60th anniversary this June.
China'sKunquOperaTheatercelebratesits60thanniversarythisJune.Kunqu,theoldestbranchoftraditionalChineseopera,wasonceanendangeredartformbuttodayisaliveandkickingw
Cong Zhaohuan sits in a spacious courtyard surrounded by brick walls that are being torn down. A six-story building, which is being emptied, is nearby.
CongZhaohuansitsinaspaciouscourtyardsurroundedbybrickwallsthatarebeingtorndown.Asix-storybuilding,whichisbeingemptied,isnearby.It'sthelocationoftheNorthernKunqu
"The year 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of the Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu in the Ming Dynasty and his British counterpart William Shakespeare. In order to better know each other, China and Britain may jointly commemorate the two literary giants," said Chinese President Xi Jinping during his state visit to the UK in 2015.
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