Depth of Field
05.01.17

From the Inside Looking Out

Ye Ming, Yan Cong & more
from Yuanjin Photo

Each March, Beijing hosts the “Two Sessions,” massive meetings of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Members of the two bodies of the nation’s legislature meet for a week in...

Culture
09.27.16

The Perils of Translating a Classic Novel from the Chinese Page to the American Stage

Nick Frisch

Welcome to my dream,” says a Chinese monk pacing along the stage of the San Francisco Opera. So begins Dream of the Red Chamber, a...

Sinica Podcast
08.31.16

What Is Cultural About the Cultural Revolution? Creativity Amid Destruction

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

This year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of...

Sinica Podcast
05.18.15

Leonard Bernstein and China

Kaiser Kuo, David Moser & more
from Sinica Podcast

This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Alexander Bernstein, son of Leonard Berstein and director of the Bernstein Family Foundation, who is now in China on part of a cultural tour. Accompanied by Alison Friedman of...

Culture
04.10.15

A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy

Denise Y. Ho

This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The...

Culture
08.11.14

The Bard in Beijing

Sheila Melvin

At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream—directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang—the director and actors returned to the stage for a...