Teen sends Peking opera, puppet plays into audio overdrive
The twanging musical score to "The Legend of White Snake," a popular story in Peking opera and shadow puppet shows, springs to life in the expert hands of 17-year old virtuoso Lin Haoran. As the teenager teaches Julian Waghann a few tricks about getting the soundtracks just right, he also explains how such intangible cultural #heritage serves as a bridge between past and present, and China and the world.