A shadow puppetry artwork created by Wang's Shadow is exhibited during the China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an in May.Young inheritor of Shaanxi puppetry has plans to revitalize the ancient cultural tradition, and many others with it, Li Yingxue reports.Have you ever experienced one of the ea...

Actors perform during an acrobatic show in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 17, 2023. A two-day acrobatic show kicked off in Beijing on Saturday. Eleven acrobatic art performing groups across the country bring 12 programs to the show. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)Actors perform during an acrobatic show in Beij...

While you've probably never heard of her, Anita Mui was one of the biggest stars in Asia, fondly remembered and forever missed after she left too early.With a career that began in her early childhood, the Cantopop diva was famed for her contralto vocals in combination with extravagant live perfo...

During the Southern Song, artists and connoisseurs who wished to express their emotional responses to paintings frequently added poems to them. Empress Yang's poems appear on a number of paintings by such court artists as Ma Yuan (active ca. 1190–1225) and Ma Lin (active ca. 1180–after 1256);...

An actor's identity, location, and current or future activity are told through movement and pantomime, sometimes accompanied by music. All movements on stage are governed by convention and strict rules. An actor cannot improvise or move as he or she chooses.Since there are few props in Peking Op...

This spare, enigmatic scene represents a revolutionary redirection in Chinese painting. Zhao Mengfu reduces his "painted" landscape to a set of calligraphic brush conventions, with the rocks executed in "flying-white" cursive and the pines outlined in unmodulated seal script. He...