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Chinese opera’s influence on pop culture has remained strong, and its mythologies crop up in kung fu films, comic books and television series. But traditional theaters have all but disappeared in China. There has, however, has been a greater effort to promote Cantonese opera since 2009, when the 300-year-old art form, sung in the dialect of Hong Kong and southern China, was recognized by Unesco as a piece of “intangible cultural heritage.”

by Brendan Lemon | 7/18/11 | Leave a comment |