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Weekly Photos: June 3-9

Updated: 2013-06-10 15:15
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Weekly Photos: June 3-9

A performer applies makeup before a performance by the Beijing Opera during a media preview at the textile museum in Shanghai June 8, 2013. Chinese opera combines music, art, literature along with colorful costumes and make-up into one performance on the stage. Since the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368), Chinese opera has been encouraged by court officials and emperors in China to become a traditional art form. [Photo/Agencies] 

Weekly Photos: June 3-9

Participants compete in a dragon boat race ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival in Shenzhen June 8, 2013. [Photo by Wu Jun/Asianewsphoto]

 

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