When Beijingers need fresh air, they head for the Western Hills. It’s an easy journey, 55p by subway. From the station, I ...

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting performs poses that can take months to perfect, and leave more than a few bruises.

A Peking duck dinner is a feast built from a single ingredient. It starts with nibbling on a taco-like snack of the delicately crisp skin tucked inside thin mandarin pancakes with a lick of earthy ...

Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting, currently appearing in The Masked Heroine, started training in the art form in her ...

Roast duck is a favourite dish of thousands, but many save it for a special occasion. That occasion happens to be today, January 18, referred to as the National Peking Duck Day. The day is celebrated ...

The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

Young Peking opera artists are devoting years to mastering its demanding techniques, hoping to win over today's audiences ...

"Peking Man," a human ancestor who lived in China between roughly 200,000 and 750,000 years ago, was a woodworking, fire-using, spear-hafting hominid who, mysteriously, liked to drill holes into ...