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The photograph shows a storyteller gesturing animatedly to his audience seated on the ground or standing in a circle surrounding him. As he is a Chinese man and his audience is Chinese, presumably his story is in Chinese or one of the Chinese dialects. Date of creation estimated. Title devised by Library staff.
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- All rights reserved, Family of Kouo Shang-Wei and National Library Board Singapore 2007
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