CIIC:Today's featured article/December 3, 2009

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Xiangsheng performance

Xiangsheng is one of the most popular and influential types of Chinese performing art. It can be said that nobody in China does not know or like it. It is humorous and highly satirical by nature.

Though similar performance had been popular for centuries, it was only in the reign of Emperor Xianfeng (r. 1851-1861) of the Qing Dynasty that xiangsheng became established as an independent art form. (More...)

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