Chinatown Opera Theater in North America Rao Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Chinatown Opera Theater in North AmericaAuthor(s): Nancy Yunhwa Rao\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252040566, 978-0252040566\nSynopsis\nAwards:\nIrving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019\nMusic in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018\nCertificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018\nOutstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019\n\n The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the preWorld War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-languag.