Taiwanese Liam kua (唸歌) maestro Yang Hsiu-ching (楊秀卿), whose mastery of the distinctive local performance art form -- which involves a combination of speaking and singing (說唱) in Hoklo -- brought her countless plaudits over the years, died at the age of 88 Friday.
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