Through its 3,000 years of history, no opera has played an indispensable role in building the Chinese identity and has also been an inable part of life for people in ancient China. And the fact that I want to talk about no opera today is because there is something inherently different about no opera from other forms of traditional theater near its time. It could be traced to a term catharsis which is coined by the Greek philosopher Aristotle.What it means is that it basically describes this convention where ...