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In a decorated slipcase there are a decorated, cloth-bound volume (with text in Chinese and captions in English and Chinese) and a soft cover volume (with an English text). Both volumes are 9"x12". Cloth bound volume: 263 pages, 670 color photographs--approximately 600 are of masks; the balance are of dancers and rituals and celebrations, 1 map. Soft cover volume: 51 pages. Taipei, 1996. Chinese "wunuo" masks representing all phases in the history of Chinese masks and covering almost 20 nationalities and more than 20 provinces and regions are presented in this dazzling work, a veratable visual encylopedia of the full history of Chinese ritual masks. The color photographs present a plethora of these seldom published masks, while the text (in the soft cover, English translation) discusses the masks' histories.…