Contemporary performance and composition of Peking Opera remain innovative while still reviving traditional forms.
At the same time in Taiwan, the genre was renamed by the KMT military government as “National Opera ( guoju國劇)” in response to defeat and expulsion by the Communist Party. With the start of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Peking Opera was reinvented as Model Opera ( yangbanxi样板戏). After the establishment of the PRC in 1949, the government implemented drama reform that aimed at bringing Peking Opera into better line with Communist ideology.
During the early 20th century in the Republic of China, Peking Opera thrived as virtuoso artists performed nationwide and toured internationally. As a blend of various Southern Chinese theatrical traditions, Peking Opera inherits and stylizes many representative musical features of Chinese xiqu in its melodies, rhythms, and vocal techniques. Peking Opera ( jingju 京剧), a major genre of classical Chinese theater ( xiqu 戏曲), emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Qing dynasty.
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