A selection of photos taken 10 years ago about Peking Opera is now stirring a debate on the Internet. In these six black and white pictures, the female characters are naked.
Every photo’s theme is a well-known story of Peking Opera, but the pictures show the male characters in costume and the naked females posing intimately with them. And it’s the nude women who are the focus of the viewers’ attention, rather than the Peking Opera costumes. The purpose of these photos is not clear but people speculated where the photographs first appeared….[Full Text]
(Photo from YNET.com via China Economic Net)