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Pictured here is Mdm Phan Wait Hong, Singapore’s most celebrated Beijing opera doyenne and recipient of the 1992 Cultural Medallion (Theatre). Title devised by Library staff.
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- All Rights Reserved. Eric Foo Chee Meng 1979-2001. Courtesy of National Arts Council.
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