According to Huyan Qiang, director of the theater, Shaanbei storytelling dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th ...

Courtesy of Xiong Zhuying When Xiong Zhu-ying, a Shaanbei storytelling inheritor and master of the Sanxian, a three-stringed ...

Take chapter two, for instance. You wake in a desert, riddled with arrows, to find a headless priest serenading you—somehow—with a sanxian; a kind of shamisen-like instrument. As you explore ...