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Product Description: The Chinese opera is anything but boring. Songs, acrobatics, acting, and costumes make the opera a truly spectacular show to behold. Spending a summer backstage at his father’s Chinese opera, a young boy is instantly enamored with the performers and works hard to be a part of the show...read more

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9781628736106 | Perseus Distribution Services, June 3, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Chinese opera is anything but boring.

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As part of the Chinese opera, Wei Lim's father, Ba, usually sings the parts of the masculine characters, while Wei Lim's grandfather has taught Wei Lim to sing the difficult female parts, but when Ba is forced to play female characters, it is up to Wei Lim to show him how.
By Jan Peng Wang (illustrator) and Paul Yee

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9780888994929 | Groundwood Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discouraged from his interest in Chinese opera by his father, Ba, who feels the art form will die in their new country, Wei Lim learns the songs for the female roles from his grandfather.

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