Aspects of Peking Opera

DVD Video
ISBN: 9780823283392
Published: 01 July 2000
$100.00
Fordham University Press
Fordham University Press

Features a celebrated star of Peking Opera, Hu Hung-Yen, who began her training at he age of eight. As a master of the movements, manners, and style of Peking Opera, she mimes the gestures and expressions of the hua dan, or coquette role, as well as traditional male roles such as the scholar and the warrior.

15 minutes, color, sound

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