Kunqu is a combination play, opera, poetry recital and musical, all performed in the distinctively melodic Suzhou dialect. The art form practically died out in the early 20th century, but has been ...

Sheng Xiaoyun, a pingtan artist of repute who has been honored at provincial and national levels, will bring the art to the ...

Sheng Xiaoyun, a renowned pingtan artist, and her younger-generation co-performers from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, stage two ...

Pintan is an ancient art of storytelling and ballad singing in Suzhou dialect, and the word is an amalgamation of the sub genres Pinghua and Tanci. Pinghua involves a single narrator with a gavel ...