Mei Lanfang: How Peking Opera Shook The World | Century Masters

In China, the 20th Century was marked by dramatic social and political changes. It saw the end of the Qing Dynasty, the emergence of regional warlord governments, a Japanese military occupation, the Chinese Civil War and the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It was equally eventful in the...

50 min - Books, Theatre & Photography - Perspective

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