Title: The rise of Cantonese opera /
Authors: Ng, Wing Chung, 1961-
Year: 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
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.