The Matchmaker (My Favorite Peking Opera Picture Books) - Hardcover

Peiyu, Wang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1487811179 ISBN 13: 9781487811174

Verlag: Royal Collins Publishing Company, 2023

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If you are looking for a cultural story of ancient China, then this fun and fascinating Peking Opera picture book can be a great start. The book uses adorable chibi-style characters that will stimulate your artistic imagination: allow yourself to be taken in by the characters’ colorful makeup, costume, and dialogue, and to be immersed in this classical living art. This is definitely the best Peking Opera introductory book for kids!

First-class Peking Opera actress Wang Peiyu has worked as a consultant on this project, and presents these brilliant Chinese folktales. This rhyming interactive picture book introduces the archetypal Peking Opera play – The Matchmaker. During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618– 907), Zhang Sheng, a scholar, fell in love with the prime minister’ s daughter, Cui Yingying. She was a young lady from Xiangguo, but Cui’ s mother repeatedly prevented the two from falling in love. With the help of Cui’ s maid, Hongniang, Zhang Sheng finally overcame all the trials and tied the knot with Cui Yingying.

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Pangbudun’ er was born in Langfang, Hebei Province. She likes Peking Opera and other traditional art forms. She is an expert in drawing Chibi characters, and she is most interested in illustrating Peking Opera stories in the Chibi style. Wang Peiyu is a renowned Peking Opera laosheng actress from the Yu Shuyan School who has won numerous awards, including the Plum Performance Award and the Magnolia Stage Leading Role Award. She is also a representative of the Fifteenth National People’ s Congress, the vice president of the Twelfth All-China Youth Federation in Shanghai, and an executive committee member of the Fifteenth All-China Women Federation in Shanghai. In 2018, she founded the Yuyin Club and initiated a Peking Opera education project.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Royal Collins Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1487811179
• ISBN 13: 9781487811174
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Pangbudun'er
• Anzahl der Seiten: 53
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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