Playing Wise Women

Peking Opera veteran Yuan Huiqin set to embark on a foreign tour to spread the traditional Chinese art form. Chen Nan reports.

A group of Swedish students came to the National Academy of Chinese Theater of Arts in Beijing to study Peking Opera in 1987.

Some of them learned the techniques of playing lao dan, or older female roles in the Chinese art form. Yuan Huiqin was one of the Chinese students in the same course.