Alumna Nancy Guy’s (PhD '96) book Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan (University of Illinois Press, 2005) has been selected by the editorial staff of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as one of their Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006. This is the second major award for Guy’s book which also received a 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing on the subject of music.Choice is a print and online resource utilized by institutions of higher education around the United States for evaluation of new publications. Every January, Choice publishes its list of Outstanding Academic Titles drawn from selections reviewed in the previous year. Nancy Guy is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego.