Across China: Chengdu archives show vibrant role of city's old teahouses

CHENGDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In the 1930s, a Sichuan opera about a black slave and his heroic deeds was staged in a teahouse in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. The story was based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

This story of black slaves resisting oppression and fighting for freedom managed to cross the Pacific and spread through the streets and alleys of a dist