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Books about Chinese opera, painted face, and Beijing opera.

Chinese Opera : Images and Stories
Wang-Ngai Siu (Photographer), et al / Hardcover / Published 1997

The Face of Chinese Opera
Guo-Lin Ts'Ao / Paperback / Published 1995

Peking Opera (Images of Asia)
Colin MacKerras / Hardcover / Published 1997

Chinese Opera
A photographic book of images of actors who perform in the fabled Peking, Cantonese, and Yue operas, with introduction by actress Gong Li.

Chinese Opera VHS video
Deben Bhattacharya / VHS Tape / Published 1992

Chinese Opera : Images and Stories
Wang-Ngai Siu, Peter Lovrick / Hardcover / Published 1997

Chinese Opera and Painted Face
Pe-Chin Chang / Hardcover / Published 1980

Fox Cat : Substituted for the Crown Prince : A Peking Opera Set in the Song Dynasty
John D. Mitchell, Donald Chang (Translator) / Paperback / Published 1984

Listening to Theatre : The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera
Elizabeth Wichmann / Hardcover / Published 1991

Ritual Opera, Operatic Ritual : 'Mu-Lien Rescues His Mother' in Chinese Popular Culture (Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project, 1)
David Johnson (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1990

Romance of the Jade Bracelet, and Other Chinese Operas
Lisa Lu / Hardcover / Published 1980

Cantonese Opera : Performance As Creative Process (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Bell Yung / Published 1989

Improvisation in a ritual context : the music of Cantonese opera
Shou-jen Ch°en

Liaison/the Gripping Real Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star Whose Affair Inspired 'M. Butterfly'
Joyce Wadler / Published 1993

McAlmon's Chinese opera : poems
Stephen Scobie

The rise of the Peking Opera, 1770-1870: social aspects of the theatre in Manchu China
Colin Mackerras

The stagecraft of Peking opera
Hsia-feng P°an

Tales from Peking Opera
Shang Huang / Published 1985

Wayang, Chinese street opera in Singapore
Ines Vente

The White Haired Girl : An Opera in Five Acts
Jingzhi He / Published 1988

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