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- of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera, and the modern Chinese ... of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera, and the modern Chinese ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... theater" (as opposed to sung Chinese opera), which had had little ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- known as Prince of Wu (吳王), was a Chinese poet and the last ruler ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- have always been popular in China. Chinese opera originated in the Tang ... ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... Nancy A. Guy, "The Appreciation of Chinese Opera: A Reply to Ching-Hsi ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- * Hefei (Simplified Chinese: 合肥市, Hanyu Pinyin: Héféi Shì) ... Anhui, is a form of traditional Chinese opera popular across China ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ... Chinese: 粵劇) is a form of Chinese opera popular in Guangdong ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- names, including the stage name Lan Ping (Chinese: 蓝苹), and commonly referred ... was one of the most powerful figures in Chinese politics during Mao’s ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- ===Chinese Opera=== Chinese opera has been popular for centuries. Originally performed ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- (鬼節) or Yulan Festival (traditional Chinese: 盂蘭盆節; simplified ... please the ghosts. Some shows include Chinese opera, dramas, and in some ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- from oral legends, Tang poetry, and Yuan opera. It is included among the ... or fictionalizing, was used in ancient Chinese historical narratives, but ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- foreign generals because he feared that Chinese generals might usurp his ... which caused terrible suffering among the Chinese people, were perceived as ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- [[Image:Beijng-Opera1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Chinese Opera, one of ... art form after the invention of paper. Chinese opera would also be introduced ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- trade. Historically on the periphery of Chinese power and economy, that ... , one of the most prominent forms of Chinese opera. Yueju originated in ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... young age to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Shaanxi constitutes one of the origin sites for the Chinese people ... to be one of the many points where Chinese civilization first developed ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- is now southern Hebei. Zhili (Traditional Chinese: 直隸; Simplified Chinese: ... Traditional forms of Chinese opera in Hebei include Pingju, Hebei ...26 KB (3,622 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- battlefield between the Japanese and the Chinese communist guerrillas of ... (晋剧 Jinju) is a popular form of Chinese opera in Shanxi. It was ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a Chinese painter. His pseudonyms ... He is perhaps the most noted contemporary Chinese painter for the ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- (T: 吉林烏拉 / S: 吉林乌拉) in Chinese, then shortened to Jilin ... and Balhae. Since 926 C.E., various Chinese dynasties and people have ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- a cultural hero and a favorite subject of Chinese folk tales, poetry, and ... (The title of the famous Chinese opera "Farewell My Concubine ...27 KB (4,419 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- played a crucial role in 1972 talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that ... with Premier Zhou Enlai, then in charge of Chinese foreign policy. This paved ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- The province is contiguous with many other Chinese provinces, including Hebei ... Henan opera (Yuju) is the local form of Chinese opera, and it is also ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- II, many of the gardens lay in ruins. The Chinese government launched a project ... of cultural highlights, among them Chinese opera. Kunqu originated in ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or ... indicating the region (for example, Chinese opera). These independent traditions ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- history. Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally ... Chinese opera has seen a more conservative development over a somewhat ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's ... charging them with a plot to overthrow the Chinese government. After a two ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- Jiangxi was outside the sphere of influence of early Chinese civilization ... Ganju is the popular form of Chinese opera performed in Jiangxi. Although ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- Bruce Jun Fan Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), was a Chinese ... martial arts in part as a means to promote Chinese national pride. His films ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- its beaches and twin landmarks: the Sydney Opera House and the Harbor Bridge ... * 1973: Sydney Opera House completed * 1993: Last single deck train ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- During the earliest Chinese dynasties, the area of what is now Jiangsu ... most renowned and prestigious forms of Chinese opera. Pingtan, a form of storytelling ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- during the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history. ... Shandong Bangzi and Lüju are popular types of Chinese opera in Shandong ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- the local capital of the Imperial Chinese Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 ... The first imperial palace was built in the Chinese style. The most prosperous ...24 KB (3,621 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- Genji is simply another way to read the Chinese characters for the real ... kana (Japanese phonetic script) and not in Chinese characters, because it was ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- Chinese New Year ( t=農曆新年, 春節|s=农历新年, 春节 ... virtue, truth, and sincerity. On the Chinese opera stage, a painted red ...42 KB (6,591 words) - 16:45, 10 December 2023
- and it was itself an extension of the Chinese civilization that had emerged ... Types of traditional Chinese opera popular in Hubei include Hanju ...22 KB (3,092 words) - 21:04, 7 February 2024
- provincial governments is a result of the Chinese Civil War. After losing ... Several regions of Fujian have their own form of Chinese opera. Minju ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- (a classical theater form based on Chinese opera), and modern spoken drama ... characters. Strongly influenced by Chinese opera, it originated as entertainment ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- The Chinese abbreviation of Guangzhou is Sui (穗; pinyin: sùi; Jyutping: ... period generally did not understand spoken Chinese nor the written logo graphic ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- In 1856, Chinese soldiers boarded The Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship ... opera, one of the most prestigious forms of Chinese opera. ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- craft, and performance art (drama, theater, opera, musical). ... all have phonetic components (such as Chinese Pinyin or Hanyu Pinyin) ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- celebrated in other cultures, such as the Chinese New Year which occurs based ... celebration on the water by the Sydney Opera House. In Scotland, there ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- on these subjects, and in 1962 he published Opera aperta ("Open Work"). In Opera aperta, Eco argued that literary texts are fields of meaning ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- but by the time of the visit of the Chinese pilgrim monk, Xuanzang, ... Michael Chance as Ganesha in Somtow's opera "Ayodhya" ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- province, China) was one of the greatest Chinese strategists of the Three ... Zhuge Liang is considered the most popular Chinese hero and statesman ...18 KB (2,855 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- ), written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century, is a Chinese ... Asian popular literature, drama, Beijing opera, and poetry for centuries. ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- provide a dowry. Gioacchino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, makes this ... In the traditional Chinese society, dowry is a symbol of social status ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- in the Mongolian classical alphabet. In Chinese, the region is known as ... region, alternated in control between Han Chinese agriculturalists in the ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- Types of musical theater include: "comic opera" (or "light ... such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), that included lyrics ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- thumb|A pair of bronze cymbals from the Chinese Jin dynasty (1115–1234)]] ... [[Image:Chinese New Year Seattle 2007 - 25.jpg|thumb|left|Chinese ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- diverged from the ancestors of the Han Chinese about 5,000–6,000 years ... China to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu or Chinese nation, although in anthropological ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- used in very cheap models and in "opera glasses," or theater glasses. ... Hand-held binoculars range from small 3x10 Galilean opera glasses ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- destroyed by the subsequent fire. The new Opera House, opened just six months ... question anticipated studies by modern Chinese seismologists in the 1960s) ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- he took posts at successively larger opera houses: in Ljubljana in 1881 ... the directorship of the Vienna State Opera, the most prestigious musical ...43 KB (6,581 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2023
- Christians. The city was a center of lyric opera in the late eighteenth century ... During this period, Milan became a center of lyric opera. There Mozart ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- because some historians consider it a Chinese occupation while others ... when the Vietnamese captured a Chinese opera troupe. Central Vietnam ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- he had seen a malfunctioning sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN ... standard from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. Darin gave the tune a vamping ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; pei˨˩ tɕɪŋ˥˥ ... Peking is the name of the city according to Chinese Postal Map Romanization ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War. ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- the family shrines of his Nepalese and Chinese wives, who were both Buddhists ... Chinese painting had a profound influence on Tibetan painting. Starting ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- as creative artists, and as hip-hop and opera singers. Everyday life in ... on Tongatapu, have become dominated by Chinese immigrants who arrived under ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- the earliest records outside of China (the Chinese encyclopaedist Shen Kua ... quot;Rolls" Series ed. of Bacon's Opera inedita, 457. ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- many of which were collected in his Opera Omnia Theologica. ... Latin into English, Arabic, Persian and Chinese by Edward Pococke for use ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- major city, and in contrast to other major Chinese cities, has only a few ancient ... their capital, building large modern Chinese residential areas, with ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the ... (with movable bridges)"), another Chinese long zither also without ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese ... By virtue of its claim over all mainland Chinese territory, Tibet also has ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the ... and of flowers, as well as boating, Chinese opera and her Chinese water ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- British model was introduced. The local Chinese population had little contact ... arrived as refugees from the ongoing Chinese Civil War. With the proclamation ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- the name of the city as Zhe-shi. The Chinese chronicles Sujshu, Bejshu ... * The Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Theatre, which was built by the ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Little is known about early Chinese libraries, save what is written ... * Haskell Free Library and Opera House, "The only library in ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- (4617). Belgrade is home to up to 20,000 Chinese, who began moving there ... and Atelier 212. Belgrade's two opera houses are: National Theatre ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- performances of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, starring basso ... Blum (ballet director at the Monte Carlo Opera) founded the Ballets Russes ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- of the population. Other languages include Chinese, Italian, and Greek. Many ... of the arts in Australia—films, opera, music, painting, theater ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- One Chinese idiom about swans is how "a toad wants to eat swan flesh!". This idiom is used derisively on men who desire women who are ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- Melayu, the Symphony (No. 3) in C, and the opera Blooms of Dublin. ... community—not to mention many Malays, Chinese, and Tamils—were subject ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- flutes or recorders have been found in Chinese archeological sites. ... the seventeenth century that the genre of opera was created by a group of ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- The Chinese are by far the largest visible ethnic group in the city ... Scandinavian, Italians and the historical Chinese population. Less visible ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- from Strange Literature (1884) and Some Chinese Ghosts (1887). He wrote ... and distinctive cuisine, the French Opera, and Vodou. His writings ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- library, the 1908 Schatz collection of early opera librettos, and the early 1930s purchase of the Russian Imperial Collection, consisting of 2,600 volumes ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- Eastern Europe. They were soon followed by Chinese, Russians, Poles and immigrants ... than 50 ballet and dance companies, six opera companies, and two symphony ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- Choctaw, mostly in Neshoba County; and Chinese-American segments of the ... Although some ethnic Chinese were recruited as indentured laborers ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- She also had roles in The Borrowers (1973) and The Chinese Prime Minister ... anderson-to-appear-in-new-nbc-tv-soap-opera.html Dame Judith Anderson ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- Frequenting the theatres, museums and opera houses of London, he would ... ==== Chinese miscalculation ==== Nehru assumed that as former colonies ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (19 percent), Spanish (8 ... the phone network. Web browsers such as Opera are available on these advanced ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- Man About Town (1939); then played a Chinese girl in a melodrama, Disputed ... quot; in the Long Beach Civic Light Opera's 1990 production of ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Brazilians, Canadians, Chileans, Chinese, Colombians, Cubans, Dominicans ... at 0.16 percent, Arabic at 0.15 percent, Chinese at 0.11 percent, and Greek ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- and Sri Lankans), East Asians (mostly Chinese and Filipinos), Central/South ... Arts Centre Orchestra, it also features opera, ballet, and contemporary ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- sunspots, although there is evidence that Chinese astronomers had done so ... * Galileo Galilei, an opera by Philip Glass * Galileo, a play by Bertolt ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- Jewish community, and small communities of Chinese and South Asians settled ... percent are of mixed race, 1.4 percent are Chinese, and 1.9 percent of people ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- Verse drama and dramatic verse|Sanskrit drama|Chinese Opera|Noh verse in East Asia developed out of Chinese Opera and includes the Noh ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- Minister (1994), and the second a two-act opera, Violet (2005). The latter ... Twitter, of Scruton talking about Soros, Chinese people and Islam, among ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- Park, home to flourishing Mexican and Chinese American communities. ... languages spoken in Brooklyn, including Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Hebrew ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- and others (mainly Slovaks, Ukranians, Chinese) made up the remainder. ... jewels of Andrássy út is the Hungarian State Opera House. ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- Arthur Waley's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, and at age seventeen ... at the New York Herald Tribune. His light opera The Wind Remains, based on ...32 KB (4,975 words) - 16:49, 21 November 2022
- (PRC) officially, often called China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó; ... dating back more than six millennia. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- *Chinese Garden, Zürich [http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/internet/chg/home ... === Opera, Ballet and Theaters === *Zürcher Opernhaus: one of the ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- followed by Japanese at 5 percent, and Chinese at 2.6 percent. Hawaiian ... music ensembles include the Hawaii Opera Theatre. Honolulu is also ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- Havana has a significant minority of Chinese, Russians mostly living ... hosts performances by the National Opera. The theater is also known ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- populations of Vietnamese, Cambodians, Chinese, and Koreans in United States ... continually operating venue, home to the Opera Company of Philadelphia. ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
