The collection is composed of ten categories accompanied with abundant photos and attaches great importance to the ethnic flavors, special usages, dialects and literary quotations, with special explanations included. Eighteen of the total 30 volumes have been published. The entire collection will boast 45 million characters and will be released by 2006.

  Records of Chinese Quyi

The chief editor is Luo Yang and vice editors are Wang Boyun and Zhou Liang. Each volume has a unified style of four different sections. In chronological order, the history part covers aspects such as Quyi genres and titles, music, performance, stage art, troupes, performing sites, performing customs, relics, publications, episodes, folklores and proverbs. It is accompanied by an abundance of pictures, demonstrating the panoramic view of Chinese Quyi art development before 1985. Fifteen of the total 29 volumes have already been released and the whole collection will have 20.3 million characters.

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