The most prestigious form became the so-called Peking Opera, though local and folk opera were also widely popular.

One of the most notable examples of this was the Peking opera, which saw “ some amazing achievements in those years ” under the leadership of such figures as Yu Huiyong.

She led an initiative for reforming modern opera in 1963 that resulted in the " eight model revolutionary operas " established at Peking Opera.

Peking opera and " reformed Peking opera " were also popular at the time.

Facial makeup of Xiahou Dun in Peking opera Mount Dingjun.

In Peking opera, Sun Ce's role is usually that of a hero or tragic hero, while his brother, Sun Quan is usually portrayed as a villain at worst or self-seeking at best.

Eastern elements include Shaolin monks, Peking opera characters and Monkey King for example.

In the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms as well as the Peking opera Loss of Jieting, Ma Su was said to have been beheaded on Zhuge Liang's order.

The Peking Opera Schools were boarding schools located throughout Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, specialising in teaching Peking opera.

In learning Peking opera, attending students developed skills in martial arts, acrobatics and tumbling, music and dance and performed these skills for audiences.

According to philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, the tenor should here create the impression of a " denatured voice in the Chinese ( falsetto ) style ", perhaps in the style of Peking opera.

The Zhengyici Peking Opera Theatre (), located on a hutong in the Xuanwu District of Beijing, is one of the best-known Beijing opera theatres.

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Wu can also be found in the language of Shaoxing opera which is second in national popularity only to Peking Opera as well as in the performances of the nationally popular entertainer Zhou Libo.

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The female Peking opera performer Shi Yihong ( original name Shi Min ) creating the role of concubine Yang Yuhuan in the modern Peking opera Da Tang Guifei.

A male Peking opera performer

Peking opera or Beijing opera () is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.

In the summer of 1900 the rebellion reached Peking, where the German legation was attacked and foreign nationals withdrew to the relative safety of the Legation Quarter.

He was a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences, official translator of Western languages for Emperor Qianlong, and the spiritual leader of the French mission in Peking.

They were enunciated in the preamble to the " Agreement ( with exchange of notes ) on trade and intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India ", which was signed at Peking on 29 April 1954.

Self administration was not achieved until the 1840s and it was subsequently transitioned into a Portuguese territory when Qing signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking, until its handover to China in 1999.

" He was heavily influenced by several teachers at the school, including the professor of ethics, Yang Changji, who urged Mao and his other students to read a radical newspaper, New Youth ( Hsien Ch ' ing-nien ), which was the creation of his friend Chen Duxiu ( 1879 – 1942 ), Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Peking University.

Paid a low wage, Mao was forced to live in a cramped room near to the university with seven other Hunanese students, but believed that the beauty of Peking offered " vivid and living compensation.

From Peking, Mao moved along to Shanghai, working as a laundryman and meeting with Chen Duxiu, who had been recently freed from prison ; together, they discussed Marxism, which Chen was also beginning to accept.

Also during his final weeks as a Marine, he applied for discharge in Peking, so he could marry a local woman, but was refused.

In 1860, the colony was extended with the Kowloon peninsula and in 1898, the Second Convention of Peking further expanded the colony with the 99 year lease of the New Territories.

In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ( south of Boundary Street ) ceded under the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997.

On 20 March 1913, while travelling with a group of friends to Peking, Song Jiaoren was shot twice at close range by a lone gunman, Ying Kuicheng, at a Shanghai railway station.

" It was at this point that Cixi began to blockade the legations with the Peking Field Force armies, which began the siege.

He was invited to give speeches at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University where he was warmly received, and this trip is claimed to have had significant impact on observers of the China-Taiwan strait relations issue.

His speech at Peking University was particularly noteworthy as Li publicly urged the Chinese Communist Party to protect the freedom of speech as laid down in the constitution of the PRC.

It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian ( 國子監 guózǐjiàn ).

Peking University was influential in the birth of China's New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement, the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and many other significant events.

Peking University was established in Beijing on July 3, 1898 during the Hundred Days Reform and was originally known as the Imperial University of Peking () to replace the ancient Guozijian ( 國子監 guózǐjiàn ).

In 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution, the Imperial University was renamed " National Peking University " ().

His overtures were initially ignored and he was denounced in Peking as a feudal chieftain whom the capitalist world turned to out of desperation.

The group of students, led by Zhang Chengzhi at Tsinghua University Middle School and Nie Yuanzi at Peking University, originally wrote the posters as a constructive criticism of Tsinghua University and Peking University's administration, which were accused of harboring " intellectual elitism " and " bourgeois " tendencies.

A key trigger in the Cultural Revolution was the publication of a dàzìbào on May 25, 1966, by Nie Yuanzi ( 聂元梓 / 聶元梓 ) and others at Peking University, claiming that the university was controlled by bourgeois anti-revolutionaries.

Jellicoe served as chief of staff to Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour during the Seymour expedition to relieve the legations at Peking in June 1900.

for services rendered during the Peking expedition.

* 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.

It is believed his drinking problems began during his service in the military while stationed in China, when he would frequent the saloons of Tientsin and Peking.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

One of China's most important playwrights and directors of the late twentieth century, Zhang Guangtian, has argued that during the Cultural Revolution, the innovations that were encouraged in the Peking Opera — which primarily involved “ the formalism and style of simplification and concision ”— led it into one of its greatest periods.

Peking University during spring

The Cultural Revolution was formally inaugurated at a mass rally in Peking during August 1966.

The 9th Party Congress met in Peking during April 1969.

Charles Stewart Parnell ; Comprising a Graphic Story of His Ancestry, Edgewood Publishing, 1891 ; reprinted in paperback by Kessinger Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-548-59792-7McWade held a number of government posts in the U. S., the most prominent of which was in the U. S. diplomatic delegation to Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

Cousin Octavia of Faction Paradox has come to Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in search of an artifact she believes can bestow immortality.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French expeditionary forces, having marched inland from the coast, reached Peking ( Beijing ).

A group of fossil specimens was discovered in 1923 – 27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian ( Chou K ' ou-tien ) near Beijing ( written ' Peking ' before the adoption of the Pinyin romanization system ), China.

The Peking Roast Duck that came to be associated with the term was fully developed during the later Ming Dynasty, and by then, Peking Duck was one of the main dishes on imperial court menus.

Born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province during the final years of Late Imperial China, she attended Yenching University in the capital, then referenced as Peking.

His publications include translations of Great Qing Legal Code, known as the Fundamental Laws of China ( 1810 ) and of the Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars ( 1821 ); Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China and our Commercial Intercourse with that Country ( 1822 ); Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences during the British Embassy to Peking ( 1824 ); Observations on our Chinese Commerce ( 1850 ).

Public interest in Peking Opera waned in the late 1960s and during the Cultural Revolution most of the schools were closed.

He resigned in 1964 in order to join the Diplomatic Service and served from 1966 to 1968 as first secretary at the British embassy in Peking during the Cultural Revolution.

Pelliot had been in the French legation in Peking while Duke Lan and his soldiers were besieging the foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion.

One of the most famous quotations in Marine Corps legend came during the initial step-off for the battle when Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, a recipient of two Medals of Honor who had served in the Philippines, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Peking and Vera Cruz, prompted his men of the 73rd Machine Gun company forward with the words: " Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?