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Man playing female role in Peking Opera

2014-09-01 07:26

By (Xinhua)


Man playing female role in Peking Opera

Peking Opera actor Hu Wenge (L) learns from his master Mei Baojiu, son of Mei Lanfang, before performing "The Drunken Beauty" at the back stage of the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the United States, Aug. 28, 2014. Hu Wenge, student of Mei Lanfang's son Mei Baojiu, has been the only successor of male Dan, a female role in Peking Opera, in Mei school of Peking Opera for the past 50 years. [Photo/Xinhua]


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