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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America /

The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities. Drawing on a wealth of Chinese and English-lang...

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Autor principal: Rao, Nancy Yunhwa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Everyday Practice and the Imaginary -- Part I. Transnational History and Immigration -- Shaping Forces, Networks, and Local Influences -- The Chinese Exclusion Act and Chinatown Theaters -- Immigration: Privilege or Right? -- Part II. Performance Practice of the 1920s -- Aesthetics, Repertoire, Roles, and Playbills -- An Examination of the Aria Song "Shilin Jita" -- Part III. British Columbia and Remaking Opera in San Francisco -- Powder and Rouge: Theaters in British Columbia -- From Lun On and Lun Hop to the Great China Theater, 1922-1925 -- The Affluent Years: The Great China Theater, 1926-1928 -- Part IV. San Francisco's New Theater and Rivalry -- A Successful, Majestic Stage : The Mandarin Theater, 1924-1926 -- A Theater of Actresses: The Mandarin Theater, 1927-1928 -- Part V. In New York and the Transnational Arena -- Two Theaters and a Merger in New York -- From Honolulu to Havana. 
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