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erased, innumerable theatre professionals viciously persecuted, and younger generation raised with far lesser exposure to Chinese opera - and modernization, with its immense social impact and imported values that Chinese opera has largely failed to counter. The total number of regional genres was determined to be more than 350 in 1957, but in the 21st century the Chinese government could only identify 162 forms for its intangible cultural heritage list, with many of them in immediate danger

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