Tag Archives: xiangsheng

Launching a people’s war against crosstalker Guo Degang

Guo Degang gets blacklisted because of a misbehaving student.

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Beijing Film Academy to train crosstalk performers

SARFT has instructed the university to recruit xiangsheng (相声) students to meet the requirements of contemporary society.

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Spring Festival crosstalk and the reform era

Crosstalk and comic sketches at the Spring Festival Gala are pretty lack-luster. Pan Caifu explains that it’s because they’re expected to be uplifting, not satiric.

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