Bilingual books aim to explain Peking Opera to foreign audience

A series of books in Chinese and English covering eight classic works of Peking Opera were recently released, with the aim of revealing details about the art form in a straightforward way.

The bilingual books are from the Translation Series of a Hundred Jingju Classics, a project initiated in 2011 and implemented by the School of Art at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

The project is part of the larger effort by the central government to promote Chinese culture overseas.