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Cultural events of the week: Nov. 8-14

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Editor's note: An exhibition paying tribute to China's landscapes and the new era, a Chinese version of a hit Broadway musical, and a shadow puppet rendition of a Chinese literary classic – these are the events you won't want to miss this week.

1, A Genius at Landscape: Exhibition of Works of Li Keran Academy of Painting

The exhibition features more than 80 works of figure painting, landscape painting and painting of flowers and birds by the Li Keran Academy of Painting, all of which pay tribute to our motherland and the new era.

Dates: Nov. 5-30

Venue: National Art Museum of China, Beijing

2, Chinese version of 'Ghost: The Musical'

China's dedicated and surprisingly large fanbase will get to experience a Chinese version of the Broadway and West End hit "Ghost: The Musical," adapted from the Academy Award-winning film.

Dates: Nov. 13-14

Venue: Nine Trees Future Art Center, Shanghai

3, Chinese shadow puppet performance of 'Journey to the West'

A tourist takes photos of shadow puppets during an exhibition in Huazhou district of Weinan city, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, May 8, 2021. Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is a traditional Chinese folk art. In 2011, Chinese shadow puppetry was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. [Photo/Xinhua]

"Journey to the West," one of the four classics of Chinese literature written by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) novelist Wu Cheng'en, will get an impressive shadow puppet treatment. Deftly controlled by puppeteers using rods, the puppet figures create the illusion of moving images on a translucent cloth screen illuminated from behind.

Dates: Nov. 13

Venue: Shanghai Centre Theatre, Shanghai

Cultural events of the week: Nov. 1-7

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