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A Song of Everlasting Sorrow

‘A Song of Everlasting Sorrow’ is China’s first large-scale real-scene historical dance drama that revives a poetic masterpiece enduring through the Tang Dynasty period and reenacts the emotion and passion of the moving romantic story of the emperor and his

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Tang Dynasty Show

I booked for this show, The Tang Dynasty Music and Dance, through the hostel where I was staying – Ancient City Youth Hostel, if you care to know. The staff whisked me off to Tang Palace and back to the

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Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Poem)

The historical dance drama with the same title staged in Huaqing Hotspring (Xi’an, China) is based on this poem by Po Chü-Yi (772-846AD)   China’s Emperor yearning, for beauty that shakes a kingdom, Reigned for many years, searching but not

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"The beauty of the truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is."— Mark Helprin

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