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Kunqu at the Lanyuan theatre

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April 15th 2008
I've asked round my students, and they all seem to be of the opinion that Chinese opera is about as meaningful and relevant to their lives as... well, they have pretty much the same opinion that your average engineering student has of Western opera in the UK, I suppose. But they all tell me that their grandparents are really into it. Certainly there's a whole state TV channel- CCTV 11- devot ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more