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CHINESE OPERA: THE ACTOR'S CRAFT. By Wang-Ngai Siu with Peter Lovrick. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014. 228 pp., 227 color images. Cloth, $45.00.
Chinese Opera presents a total of 227 exquisite photographic images of Chinese opera by Wang-Ngai Siu, a Hong Kong-based photographer and a veteran aficionado of the art. The photographs as a whole testify to Siu's nearly threedecade devotion to the operatic form-the dates of the images range from the early 1980s to 2010. With introductory texts written by Peter Lovrick, the photographic representations are arranged in a thematic order and displayed in six chapters. In addition to chapter 1, which serves as...