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90 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Aesthetics, Anhui, Aria, Beijing, Beijing dialect, Cantonese opera, CCTV-11, Central Plains Mandarin, Chang'an Grand Theatre, Chen Kaige, Cheng Yanqiu, China, China National Peking Opera Company, Chinese characters, Chinese Civil War, Chinese folklore, Chinese opera, Classical Chinese, Communist Party of China, Cultural Revolution, Dan (Chinese opera), Emperor Taizu of Song, Empress Dowager Cixi, Farewell My Concubine (film), Fei Mu, Forever Enthralled, Four Great Characteristic Melodies, Gong, Guan Yu, History of China, Huangmei opera, Hubei, Huguang Guild Hall, Huiju, Japan, Jiang Qing, Jin dynasty (265–420), Jinghu (instrument), King Hu, King Lear, Kunqu, Kuomintang, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Mao Zedong, Mei Lanfang, Melody, Meng Xiaodong, Min opera, Ming dynasty, ..., Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China), National Centre for the Performing Arts (China), Otis Skinner, Peking Opera Blues, People's Daily, Percussion instrument, Political status of Taiwan, Pomona College, Prince Kung's Mansion, Qianlong Emperor, Qing dynasty, Qinqiang, Revolutionary opera, Shaanxi, Shang Xiaoyun, Shanghai, Shaoxing opera, Song dynasty, Soviet Union, Standard Chinese, Suzhou, Taiping Rebellion, Taiwan, Taiwanese opera, The Legend of the Red Lantern, Tianjin, Tsui Hark, United States, University of California, University of Hawaii at Manoa, William Shakespeare, Xun Huisheng, Yu opera, Yuan dynasty, Yueqin, Yunbai, Zaju, Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre, Zhili, Zhou Xinfang. Expand index (40 more) »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Anhui
Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.
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Aria
An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Beijing dialect
The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.
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Cantonese opera
The Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province.
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CCTV-11
CCTV-11 is the Chinese opera channel of the CCTV (China Central Television) Network in the People's Republic of China launched on July 9, 2001.
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Central Plains Mandarin
Central Plains Mandarin, or Zhongyuan Mandarin, is a variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in the central and southern parts of Shaanxi, Henan, southwestern part of Shanxi, southern part of Gansu, far southern part of Hebei, northern Anhui, northern parts of Jiangsu, southern Xinjiang and southern Shandong.
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Chang'an Grand Theatre
The Chang'an Grand Theatre (长安大戏院), located on East Chang'an Avenue, is a theatre in Beijing that specializes in Peking Opera performances.
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Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige (born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema.
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Cheng Yanqiu
Cheng Yanqiu (1 January 1904 – 9 March 1958) was a Chinese Peking opera singer.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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China National Peking Opera Company
The China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC), originally named the National Peking Opera Theater of China, is one of the national ensembles of performance arts directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Chinese folklore
Chinese folklore encompasses the folklore of China, and includes songs, poetry, dances, puppetry, and tales.
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Chinese opera
Traditional Chinese opera, or Xiqu, is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.
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Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.
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Dan (Chinese opera)
Dan ((Wade-Giles: tan), is the general name for female roles in Chinese opera, often referring to leading roles.
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Emperor Taizu of Song
Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927 – 14 November 976) personal name Zhao Kuangyin, courtesy name Yuanlang, was the founder and first emperor of the Song dynasty in China.
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi1 (Manchu: Tsysi taiheo; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), of the Manchu Yehenara clan, was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.
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Farewell My Concubine (film)
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Kaige.
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Fei Mu
Fei Mu (1906–1951) was a major Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era.
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Forever Enthralled
Forever Enthralled is a Chinese biographical film directed by Chen Kaige; the film marks Chen's eleventh feature film as a director.
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Four Great Characteristic Melodies
Four Great Characteristic Melodies (四大声腔 pinyin: Sìdà Shēngqiāng) in Chinese opera are Bangziqiang, Huangpiqiang, Kunqiang and Gaoqiang.
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Gong
A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.
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Guan Yu
Guan Yu (died January or February 220), courtesy name Yunchang, was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
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History of China
The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.
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Huangmei opera
Huangmei or Huangmei tone (黃梅戲 or 黃梅調, pinyin: Huángméixì or Huángméidiào) originated as a form of rural folksong and dance that has been in existence for the last 200 years and possibly longer.
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Hubei
Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.
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Huguang Guild Hall
The Huguang Guild Hall in Beijing is a renowned Beijing opera (Peking opera) theatre.
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Huiju
Huiju, or "Anhui opera", is a variety of Chinese opera from the east-central province of Anhui, China, and was formerly also popular in neighboring Zhejiang.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing (March 19, 1914May 14, 1991), also known as Madame Mao, was a Chinese Communist Revolutionary, Chinese actress, and major political figure during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
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Jin dynasty (265–420)
The Jin dynasty or the Jin Empire (sometimes distinguished as the or) was a Chinese dynasty traditionally dated from 266 to 420.
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Jinghu (instrument)
The jinghu (京胡; pinyin: jīnghú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family, used primarily in Beijing opera.
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King Hu
Hu Jinquan (29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997), better known as King Hu, was a Chinese film director based in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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Kunqu
Kunqu, also known as Kunju (崑劇), Kun opera or Kunqu Opera, is one of the oldest extant forms of Chinese opera.
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Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.
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Lower Yangtze Mandarin
Lower Yangtze Mandarin is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intellegible groups of Mandarin dialects, as it neighbors the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of varieties of Chinese.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
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Mei Lanfang
Mei Lan (22 October 1894 – 8 August 1961), better known by his stage name Mei Lanfang, was one of the most famous Peking opera artists in modern Chinese theater.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Meng Xiaodong
Meng Xiaodong (December 9, 1908 – May 26, 1977) was a Shanghai actress of Peking opera.
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Min opera
Min opera (Foochow Romanized: Mìng-kiŏk), also called Fuzhou drama (Foochow Romanized: Hók-ciŭ-hié), is one of the major traditional opera forms in Fujian Province.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China)
The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China (MND) is a cabinet-level agency under the Executive Yuan responsible for all defense and military affairs of Taiwan.
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National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) (literally: National Grand Theatre), and colloquially described as The Giant Egg (巨蛋), is an arts centre containing an opera house in Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Otis Skinner
Otis Skinner (June 28, 1858 – January 4, 1942) was an American stage actor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Peking Opera Blues
Peking Opera Blues is a 1986 Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark.
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People's Daily
The People's Daily or Renmin Ribao is the biggest newspaper group in China.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Political status of Taiwan
The controversy regarding the political status of Taiwan, sometimes referred to as the Taiwan Issue or Taiwan Strait Issue, or from a Taiwanese perspective as the Mainland Issue, is a result of the Chinese Civil War and the subsequent split of China into the two present-day self-governing entities of the People's Republic of China (PRC; commonly known as China) and the Republic of China (ROC; commonly known as Taiwan).
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Pomona College
Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States.
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Prince Kung's Mansion
Prince Kung's Mansion, also known as the Prince Gong Mansion, is a museum and tourist attraction located in Xicheng District, Beijing, just north of the Shichahai Lake.
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Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799) was the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Qinqiang
Qinqiang (秦腔, pinyin: Qínqiāng) or Luantan (亂彈, pinyin: Luàntán) is the representative folk Chinese opera of the northwest Province of Shaanxi, China, where it was called Qin thousands of years ago.
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Revolutionary opera
In China, revolutionary opera refers to the model operas planned and engineered during the Cultural Revolution by Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.
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Shang Xiaoyun
Shang Xiaoyun (1900 – April 19, 1976) was one of the four great twentieth century performers of the Dan role type in Jingju with Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, and Xun Huisheng.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Shaoxing opera
Shaoxing opera, also known as Yue opera, is the second most popular opera form out of over 360 opera genres in China.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.
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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or total civil war in China that was waged from 1850 to 1864 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
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Taiwanese opera
Taiwanese (folk) Ke-Tse opera is the only form of traditional drama known to have originated in Taiwan.
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The Legend of the Red Lantern
The Legend of the Red Lantern is one of the Eight model plays, the only operas and ballets permitted during the Cultural Revolution in China.
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Tianjin
Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.
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Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark (Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong, is a Vietnam-born Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the US state of California.
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (also known as U.H. Mānoa, the University of Hawaiʻi, or simply U.H.) is a public co-educational research university as well as the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Xun Huisheng
Xun Huisheng (5 January 1900 - 26 December 1968) was one of Peking Opera's "Four Great Dan", along with Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, and Shang Xiaoyun.
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Yu opera
Yu opera, or Yuju opera, formerly known as Henan bangzi"Bangzi" meaning wooden clappers with bars of unequal length, is one of China's famous national opera forms, alongside Peking opera, Shaoxing opera, Huangmei opera and Pingju.
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Yehe Yuan Ulus), was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan.
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Yueqin
The yueqin or yue qin (Chinese: 月琴, p yuèqín), formerly romanized as yüeh-ch‘in and also known as the moon guitar, moon zither, gekkin, laqin, or la-ch‘in, is a traditional Chinese string instrument.
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Yunbai
Yunbai is a form of heightened speech used in Beijing opera and Kunqu.
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Zaju
Zaju (literally meaning "variety show") was a form of Chinese drama or Chinese opera which provided entertainment through a synthesis of recitations of prose and poetry, dance, singing, and mime, with a certain emphasis on comedy (or, happy endings).
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Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre
The Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre, located on a hutong in the Xuanwu District of Beijing, is one of the best-known Beijing opera theatres.
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Zhili
Zhili, formerly romanized as Chihli, was a northern province of China from the 14th-century Ming Dynasty until the province was dissolved in 1928 during the Warlord Era.
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Zhou Xinfang
Zhou Xinfang (14 January 1895 – 8 March 1975), also known by his stage name or was a Peking Opera actor who specialized in its "old male" (生, laosheng) role.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_opera
