The rise of Cantonese opera /Wing Chung Ng.

Ng, Wing Chung, 1961-

The rise of Cantonese opera /Wing Chung Ng. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

From village art form to global phenomenon.



9780252097096

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Operas, Chinese--History and criticism.--China--Guangdong Sheng
Operas, Chinese--History and criticism.--China--Guangzhou
Operas, Chinese--History and criticism.--China--Hong Kong


Electronic Books.

ML1751 / .R574 2015