Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Sui Xiaofei) Dedication to traditional Chinese culture and love for Kunqu opera flow in the author's words and lines. The book "Peony Love - Bai Xianyong's Kunqu Journey" recently published by the Commercial Press will allow readers to further appreciate Mr. Bai Xianyong's Kunqu feelings in careful reading and thinking.
Since 2004, Bai Xianyong's youth version of "Peony Pavilion" has begun to tour, and by 2012, a total of about 200 performances have been performed, which has effectively promoted the spread of Kunqu opera. During this period, Bai Xianyong formed and expressed his unique Kunqu concept. The book "Peony Love - Bai Xianyong's Kunqu Journey" comprehensively includes Bai Xianyong's essays on Kunqu opera, as well as wonderful interviews and conversations related to Kunqu opera, comprehensively showing the causes and feelings, gains and losses, gains and losses of Bai Xianyong and Kunqu, as well as the mental process of making the youth version of "Peony Pavilion" and the new version of "Jade Hairpin".
The main contents of the book include "The Origin of My Kunqu Opera - Remembering Mei Lanfang and Yu Zhenfei", "Let "Peony Pavilion" Recreate the Kunqu Style", "Peony Pavilion on the Three Lives Road - The Ins and Outs of Making the Youth Edition", "Peony Pavilion" and "The Soul of "Facing the World - Kunqu Opera and Peony Pavilion"" "About the Youth Problem of "Peony Pavilion" - Li Wenru's Visit to Bai Xianyong", "Tradition and Modernity - From the Production of the Youth Edition of "Peony Pavilion" and the new version of "Jade Hairpin"" and so on. (End)
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