{"id":54790,"date":"2015-08-08T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54790"},"modified":"2015-07-20T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T21:37:38","slug":"chinese-theatre-works-holding-up-half-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=54790","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Theatre Works &#8211; Holding Up Half the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, August 08  2PM<br \/>\nFlushing Town Hall<br \/>\n137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/puppet.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[54790]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/puppet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOpera and puppet spectacle spanning 2,000 years of Chinese history presents the lives of four legendary Chinese women warriors &#8211; Hua Mulan (made famous in ancient ballads and opera, and more recently by Disney), Hongxian (Tang Dynasty), She Saihua (Song Dynasty), and Qiu Jin (early 20th century).<\/p>\n<p>CTW dramatizes  the battles and exploits of these brave fighting women, which spans 2000 years of Chinese history, using a wide variety of puppetry styles (shadow, hand, rod, bunraku), blended seamlessly with classic Chinese opera, dance and music with contemporary Western theater craft.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org\/event\/1b3a61da0e48dda63fa208cfeb470f7e\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.flushingtownhall.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, August 08 2PM Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54792,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54790\/revisions\/54792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}