Cover
Title
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Romanization
Introduction
Part I: Formation of Cantonese Opera in South China
Chapter One: Itinerant Actors and Red Boats in the Pearl River Delta
Chater Two: Urbanization of Cantonese Opera
Chapter Three: Urban Theater and Its Modern Crisis
Part II: Popular Theater and the State
Chapter Four: The Cultural Politics of Theater Reform
Chapter Five: The State, Public Order, and Local Theater in South China
Part III: Local Theater, Transnational Arena
Chapter Six: Popular Theater in the Diaspora
Chapter Seven: Theater as Transnational Business
Chapter Eight: Theater and the Immigrant Public
Conclusion
List of Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index