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Author Ng, Wing Chung, 1961- author.

Title The rise of Cantonese opera / Wing Chung Ng.

Publication Info. Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
©2015

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML1751.C5 N4 2015    Available  ---
Description xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
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.
Language English text.
Subject Operas, Chinese -- China -- Guangdong Sheng -- History and criticism.
Operas, Chinese.
China -- Guangdong Sheng.
Operas, Chinese -- China -- Guangzhou -- History and criticism.
China -- Guangzhou.
Operas, Chinese -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism.
China -- Hong Kong.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 9780252039119 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0252039114 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780252097096 (ebook)
0252097092 (electronic book)