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By Josef Gregory Mahoney  ·  2020-12-11  ·   Source: NO.52 DECEMBER 24, 2020   Singers (fi rst and second left) pose with visitors in Poya Village, Funing County, Yunnan Province in southwest China(COURTESY PHOTO)  In Poya Village in Funing County, on the southern border of Yunnan Province, just a few kilometers north of Chinas border with Viet Nam, two "successors" remain, both of the Zhuang minority—the last true singers of the "Poya songbook."  "Mountain songs" like the Poya...