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Guan Gong as portrayed by an actor of a touring troupe from Taiwan in the 1970s /

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Title: Guan Gong as portrayed by an actor of a touring troupe from Taiwan in the 1970s /
Alternative Title: Digital Archive of Chinese Theater in California
Creator: Wing, Frank
Contributor: Wing, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983? (issued)
1983 (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: [photograph by] Frank Wing.
TIFF archival image file CD
Photoprint of original made in the 1970s.
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
Guan Gong is regarded as the God of war. He is greatly revered and respected. The red and black colors denote integrity. Guan Gong is one of the heroes of the Chinese classical novel The romance of the three kingdoms.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : col. ; 35 x 23 cm.
Form/Genre: graphic
Photographic prints.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6n39q484
ark:/13030/kt6n39q484
Language: English
Subject: Operas, Chinese
Theatrical makeup--Photographs
Actors--Taiwan--Photographs
Headgear--Photographs
Place: Actors
Taiwan
Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.)

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