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Speaking of masks for the current crisis, the use of masks in performance is common throughout the world. It occurs to me that this blog now has a quorum of posts featuring masked drama around Asia.

Starting with Tibet:

• The enchanting world of Tibetan opera
• dhrekar itinerant beggars, under Tibet: some folk ritual performers
• cham monastic dance.

For China and Japan:

• The films of Jacques Pimpaneau, featuring nuoxi
• a monograph on ritual and nuoxi in Hunan
• Noh drama of Japan: several links here.

And for Tuva:

• Frozen brass, ending with tsam ritual dance—on ice!

Elsewhere, apart from Africa and the Americas, masked performances around Europe would make a fruitful theme, both in folk and art cultures.