A Feast Of Opera

The National Center for the Performing Arts puts on a three-month festival The 2010 Opera Festival of the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is to kick off soon.     

A Tibetan Opera Master

At nine o'clock on the morning of January 19, 2007, bright sunshine covers Quzong, a village in Rinbung County in Tibet's Gyangze Prefecture. Ci Ren, 79, leaves home after having buttered tea. He is going to visit Pian Duo. head of the village's Jiang Ga Er Tibetan Opera Troupe, to discuss borrowing costumes from the county's opera troupe. They plan to perform Tibetan Opera for the villagers for two days. For Ci Ren and his fellow perform-     

Foreign Gold Digger''''s Favorite:Hongqiao Market

The shop of the Fanghua Pearls & Jewelry looks like a photographic exhibition of the world's big names and their wives.Located on the fourth floor of the Hongqiao Market near the Temple of Heaven in southern part of Beijing downtown, the brightly-illuminated shop has been an attraction for visiting heads of the governments, their wives as well as other famous people."Most of the wives of government' heads who visited China have been to our Hongqiao market," said the proud General Manager Bai Rufang. "Some of them have returned when they visited China again years later."     

Opera From Heaven

正Tibetan opera seeks innovative expressions of life Surrounded by an air of mystery,three performers wearing blue masks entered the stage in the opening scene of a Tibetan opera. They recited a legend of aTibetan figure from a distant age, in a familiar motif of the art form. With holy and customary     

Yueju Opera Love

正Little known in the capital, one amateur opera troupe is making waves Cheng Yuanna enters the dressing room at the Culture Center of Xicheng in Beijing one Sunday afternoon and immediately begins delegating tasks.     

Peking Opera on Broadway

WITH a history spanning more than two centuries,Peking Opera is regarded as the jewel in the crown of Chinese culture.Born in Beijing in the mid-19th century,it absorbed facets of a variety of performing arts from different provinces including Anhui,Hubei,Shaanxi,Jiangxi,Jiangsu,and Hebei.In     

The Peking Opera Aesthetic

WITHIN traditional Chinese aesthet- ics there is actual and virtual appre- ciation of beauty.The Chinese concept of beauty is re flected in the thoughts of Laozi, a con temporary of Confucius (551-479 B.C and arguably China's most profoun philosopher. To him, the pursuit of hu man knowledge in the changing worl was an endless vocation. He wrote i the Dao De Jing (The Scripture of Eth ics), "Great sound is hard to hear, grea form has no shape," inferring that tru beauty and greatness ex…     

绍兴地区液化天然气（LNG）应用工程初探

介绍了绍兴地区应用液化天然气的必要性、可能性及产生的效益,并对随之将带来的一些问题进行分析,提出了一些解决办法和措施。     

Kunqu Opera In Nanjing

正Foreigners in China often pursue the passions. One person may collec antique snuff bottles, while anothe may seek out a prized Qing robe. One of th most compelling     

肥皂剧与大众文化

大众文化是一种都市工业社会或大众消费社会的特殊产物,是大众消费社会中通过大众传媒所承载、传递的文化产品,这是一种合成的加工的文化产品,其明显特征主要是为大众消费而创造出来的,有标准化和模拟个性的特色。大众传媒是大众文化的重要载体,大众传媒的重要功能是传播文化的功能。而作为电子媒介的电视可以说是当代大众文化的象征系统。肥皂剧,这一出现于20世纪30年代的电视节目形式,以其鲜明的特点,反映着大众文化与电视的关系。     

Revival of the Cantonese Opera

WALKING along the archaistic streets of Yongqingfang Square in Guangzhou,one will notice a museum built in the architectural style of a Lingnan gar-den (a typical garden south of the Five Mountain Ridges in south China).That is the Cantonese Opera Art Museum.Standing as a local landmark,the "garden museum" has attracted many Canton-ese Opera lovers.     

Learning About Tibet from Opera

Where there is a Tibetan community, there is also Tibetan Opera. One of the oldest forms of drama among peoples of Central Asia, 17betan Opera can be traced back to the 13th cen- tury. Thang-stong-rgyal-po （1385- 1464）, a lama of the White Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, is believed to be the founder of Tibetan Opera. He wrote many dramas that musically portray religious stories and biographies of great men.     

Role-Defining Peking Opera Stage Makeup

Female Roles Makeup for the Jan or female role in Peking Opera endows the actress with an oval face; pointed chin, arched eyebrows, almond shaped eyes, and a rosebud mouth - the idealized Chinese concept of feminine beauty. Whether naturally round or angular, an actress's face can be made to appear perfectly oval with the help of a hairpiece (pian- zi), pasted to her forehead and temples. Other aesthetic attributes are created with the help of white face powder, rouge, lipstick, and black ey…     

An MA in Peking Opera

&&An MA in Peking Opera     

戏曲振兴在于改革

文章从戏曲的剧本、表演程式、声腔、演员培养等方面对如何实现戏曲的振兴问题进行了探讨,认为要振兴戏曲,关键是要舷做到以下几点:一是创造出与时代同步的新剧本、新程式;二是创造与时代合拍的新声腔;三是建设一支与时代齐步前进的新队伍;四是找准戏曲振兴的主阵地.     

Expo Puts Shaoxing on the Textile Industry Map

THE China Shaoxing International Textile Expo has become an annual must-see event for those in the textiles industry-a four-day whirlwind of the latest fabrics, machinery, and textile science and technology. Constant fashion shows allow industry personnel to see the fruits of their labors and provide a break from fever-pitch trading. Since the first event in 1999, the number of booths has exploded from 333 to 1,229. while the total Value of transactions at the expo has swelled from RMB 0.5 billion to RMB 3.858 billion. The eighth expo, held from October 21 to 24, 2007, attracted thousands of visitors.     

The Performance Art of Peking Opera

BY the turn of the19th century,Beijing's status as economic,po-litical and cultural capital had attracted so many theatrical troupesfrom Shaanxi,Anhui,and Hubei that it resembled a multi-facetedperformance venue.The Anhui Opera troupe initially arrived at theinvitation of the imperial court,but its popularity soon extendedfrom the nobility to the common people.Lesser-known companies came on theirown initiative,and their warm reception encouraged many,in common with theAnhui Opera company,to…