Inside Chinese Theater

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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• Estudos Black & Asian
• Ópera
• As minorias étnicas e Estudos Multiculturais
• História das Américas

opera; American music; trans-Pacific; San Francisco; Immigration law; Chinese Exclusion; actor; photograph; Chinese Restriction Act of 1882; Railroad Chinese; California Gold Rush; North American