"There is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
It's opera, Jim, but not as we know it
The school took a trip out to Yellow Dragon Park on Sunday afternoon to see a couple of short performances of excerpts from Chinese opera. I think this is the Kunqu school of Chinese opera, but I couldn't absolutely swear to it.
The popularity of the form does seem to be waning amongst the younger generations of Chinese. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd turned out for these open-air matinee performances, but they were almost all well over 70 years old.
Here are a couple of short clips I filmed from an extract the troupe performed from the convoluted local Hangzhou story, Legend of the White Snake.
Monday, 2 December 2013
Thought for the week
"Education is what's left when you've forgotten everything you were taught in school."
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