Hong Took Tong Chinese Dramatic Company
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The Hong Took Tong Chinese Dramatic Company was a San Francisco, California-based Chinese opera company who became the first major Asian American theatrical company in the country, inaugurating the first phase of the history of Chinese opera in the United States.[1] A performance in 1852 was the first Cantonese opera ever shown in the country.[2]
[edit] References
- Koskoff, Ellen (ed.) (2000). Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-4944-6.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Pang, Cecilia J. (September 22 2005). (Re)cycling culture: Chinese opera in the United States. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5884534/Re-cycling-culture-Chinese-opera.html.
- ^ Zheng, Su. "Chinese Music". The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. pp. 957–966.
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