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A prolific performer in this genre famously honed his eyesight by raising and gazing at pigeons. In a work in this genre, two women meet again with fates reversed after, years earlier, the wealthier one gave her jewels to the poorer one on their wedding day. A performer in this genre has his sixth finger cut off by his mother at the start of a novel by Lilian Lee. In a work in this genre, a woman dies of lovesickness, is exhumed, and is brought back to life after falling for a man in a (*) dream. A form of this genre (10[1]-5[1])in which performers wear long “water sleeves” has (10[1])four main roles: (-5[1])male, (10[3])female, “painted face,” and “clown.” A form of this genre, whose works include The Drunken Concubine, was banned as bourgeois and replaced by eight “model” works during the Cultural Revolution. For 10 points, (10[1])there are “Cantonese” and “Peking” subtypes of what genre of Chinese musical theatre? ■END■

ANSWER: Chinese opera [or xiqu; accept more specific answers such as Peking opera; or Beijing opera; or Cantonese opera; or Kun opera; accept jīngjù; or kunqu; or kunju; accept revolutionary opera; or model opera; prompt on musical theatre; prompt on model plays or revolutionary plays] (The performer in the first sentence is Mei Lanfang. Lilian Lee’s novel is Farewell My Concubine. The operas in the second and fourth sentences are, respectively, Unicorn Trapping Purse and The Peony Pavilion.)
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