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Nixon in China, not in China

Nick Frisch puts the Met’s performance of Nixon in China up against the expectations of Chinese opera viewers.

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Jingju vs. Peking Opera – Zhao Qizheng weighs in

Zhao Qizheng (赵启正) has a blog. He discusses Peking Opera (京剧), or jingju.

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Kun Opera in China and America

Scholar Xu Ben writes about Kun Opera in Suzhou and at Berkeley – is this a living form of drama, or a specimen of something nearly extinct?

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