Pamphlet showing an advertisement on a Chinese opera performance

Title
Pamphlet showing an advertisement on a Chinese opera performance
Year/Period
26 July 1967
Region
Singapore and Malaysia
Dimension
Image size: 27.2 x 38.9 cm
Accession No.
1995-00395

As the advertisement shows, this Chinese opera performance was being staged in celebration of a clan association's construction of a shrine for a deity. Apart from socio-religious reasons such as this, opera performances are also held as a form of mass entertainment for the local community during occasions of special significance.