Inside Chinese Theater

Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond

Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252088636 (ISBN)

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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.

Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University and the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	70 black & white photographs, 3 music examples, 10 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780252088636 / 9780252088636
Zustand	Neuware