Inside Chinese Theater
Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 8 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046537
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 70 black & white photographs, 3 music examples, 10 tables 700
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Long description:
In the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese opera theater arrived as one of the significant performing art forms in California. Nancy Yunhwa Rao excavates and contextualizes the important history of Chinese Opera Theater, bringing to light the ways it became woven into the financial, political, social, and family life in California and beyond.
Chinese opera theater found brick-and-mortar homes with San Francisco theaters like the Hing Chuen Yuen and the Donn Qui Yuen. But troupes had already followed Chinese immigrants to mining and railroad towns, and across the American West. As Chinese theater became part of California and San Francisco culture, popular Chinese actors advocated for their art alongside appeals for civil rights. Rao draws on personal diaries, newspapers and artifacts to place Chinese theater within the everyday lives of San Francisco. She also examines the costumes, singing, staging, and storytelling that impacted mainstream reception and influenced how Chinese communities saw themselves.
Illustrated with seventy photographs, Inside Chinese Theater is an expert and eloquent journey into the early decades of Chinese opera in America.
“Capturing the extraordinary movements, sounds, spectacles, and central presence of Chinese Cantonese opera in nineteenth century California, Nancy Rao’s Inside Chinese Theater presents a fascinating and long neglected cultural history that is simultaneously American and Transpacific.”--Gordon H. Chang, author of Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad More
Table of Contents:
Chronology of Chinese Theaters in San Francisco
Note on Chinese Names and Terms
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1. First Encounters
Chapter 2. Bringing Opera to the Mines and Railroad Chinese
Chapter 3. Performing Chinese Opera in San Francisco
Chapter 4. Cultural Capital: Theaters on Jackson Street
Chapter 5. Prosperity: A New Theater on Washington Street
Chapter 6. Education, Diplomacy Culture, and the Fourth Theater
Chapter 7. Contest the Restriction Act: In re Ho King
Chapter 8. Star Power and Chinese American Theater
Chapter 9. Picturesque Chinese Theater
Chapter 10. Civil Rights, Owning Glamour, and Sonic Ethnology
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Appendix. Stylistic Characteristics of Cantonese Opera and A Transcription
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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