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Bay Area Chinese American teens teach peers about Chinese opera

Older generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay Area revel at the sight of traditional Chinese opera performances. But ...

Mindy Meng Wang on the ‘disorienting’ experience of her father’s funeral – and the Chinese cyber-opera it inspired

The guzheng virtuoso remembers being shocked by the traditional ceremony in north-western China. Now she’s processing it on stage ...
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From Qing Dynasty to the 1980s: Beijing exhibition revives a century of Chinese music

A Beijing exhibition curated by Luo Ning uses rare vinyl records to trace nearly 100 years of Chinese music, from Peking Opera to early pop and beyond.
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All about bamboo flutes the dizi and xiao, their evolution and uses in Chinese music

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...