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Yuju Opera doyenne to return to stage

Xiao Xiangyu, China's leading Yuju Opera actress, will return to direct the Shanxi Yuju Opera Company in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, and Beijing.

Born in 1965 in Henan, Xiao Xiangyu learned from her grandmother Chang Xiangyu (1923-2004), China's best known Yuju Opera actress, from a very young age and has inherited Chang's style. But since 1995, when she moved to Taiyuan to found an art school to train Yuju performers and students of other genres, she has kept away from the stage. In 2006, she played a supporting role in the movie One Foot Off the Ground, which earned her the Golden Rooster Award.