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.
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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