The most bejeweled model I saw on my visit was the Beijing Opera Mask, made primarily for the Chinese market.

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Some of the images -- especially dreamy scenes of Beijing opera -- are ravishing, but Zhang's reading of homosexuality seems a little dated.

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Kunqu combines song, recital, body movement and dance and plays a key role in the training of the actors and singers of Beijing opera.

UNESCO: Culture

It has distinguished itself by the virtuosity of its rhythmic patterns (changqiang) and has exerted a dominant influence on all the more recent forms of opera in China, the Sichuan or Beijing opera.

UNESCO: Culture

The movie follows a pair of male Beijing Opera performers, Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi), from their school days, in the nineteen-twenties and early thirties, to their farewell performance together, in 1977.

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Ong cites Lear, his avant-garde interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy flavored with elements of Indonesian martial arts, Noh drama and Beijing opera -- and performed in different languages by a multi-national cast, half Singaporean, a good part Japanese, with a sprinkling of other Asians.

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Peking opera is sung and recited using primarily Beijing dialect, and its librettos are composed according to a strict set of rules that prize form and rhyme.

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