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