The rise of Cantonese opera /

The rise of Cantonese opera / Wing Chung Ng.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ng, Wing Chung, 1961- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Operas, Chinese > China > Guangdong Sheng > History and criticism. Operas, Chinese > China > Guangzhou > History and criticism. Operas, Chinese > China > Hong Kong > History and criticism. Operas, Chinese. China > Guangdong Sheng. China > Guangzhou. China > Hong Kong. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Formation of Cantonese opera in South China. Itinerant actors and red boats in the Pearl River Delta ; Urbanization of Cantonese opera ; Urban theater and its modern crisis
Popular theater and the state. The cultural politics of theater reform ; The state, public order, and local theater in South China
Local theater, transnational arena. Popular theater in the diaspora
Theater as transnational business
Theater and the immigrant public.