Chinatown opera theater in North America
By: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Series: Music in American life; Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780252082030; 9780252040566
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social life and customs; Theater; Chinese drama; History and criticism; Chinese Operas; Theaters; Chinatowns; Chinese Americans; Production and direction; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "List of Chinese names and terms": pages 321-331.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Everyday practice and the imaginary; title: Transnational history and immigration. Shaping forces, networks, and local influences ; The Chinese Exclusion Act and Chinatown theaters ; Immigration : privilege or right?; title: Performance practice of the 1920s. Aesthetics, repertoire, roles, and playbills ; An examination of the aria song "Shilin jita"; title: 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; title: 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; title: In New York and the transnational arena. Two theaters and a merger in New York ; From Honolulu to Havana ; Epilogue.