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Title: Portrait of Mei Lan-fang in the role of a "hua dan" /
Alternative Title: Digital Archive of Chinese Theater in California
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1940 and 1949] (issued)
1940 (issued)
1949 (issued)
Publication Information: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
Contributing Institution: Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
Collection: Collection of Chinese Theater Images in California
Rights Information: For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the librarian.
Description: [Unknown].
TIFF archival image file CD
Cataloging and digitization was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the librarian
The hua dan is a female role and flirtatious, coquettish and coy in character.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 21 cm.
Form/Genre: graphic
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5199q1wr
ark:/13030/kt5199q1wr
Language: English
Subject: Mei, Lanfang--1894-1961--Photographs
Operas, Chinese
Actors--China--Photographs
Place: Actors
China
Photographs

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