Actors Shen Fengying (left) and Yu Jiulin in Jade Hairpin. Top: Producer Pai Hsien-yung. Four years ago, a modern version of The Peony Pavilion adapted by Taiwan writer and artist Pai Hsien-yung ...

The Kunqu Opera classics Jade Hairpin and The Peony Pavilion will be staged in Guangzhou during the third week of October. Jade Hairpin tells the tale of a young scholar falling in love with a Taoist ...

Convinced of infidelity, the scholar Wang Yulin refuses to consummate his marriage to Xiuying, the only daughter of the Secretary of Defense, subjecting her to constant humiliation. After enduring a ...