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Quangang Hokkien Opera

Development by the People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2021

Chen Shixiong  and
Guochen Dong
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Abstract

More than 80% of Chinese opera performances today are presented by privately run professional folk troupes, mostly in rural areas—Chinese theatre’s best kept secret. These performances are rarely noticed by Chinese theatre scholars. There are more than 30 such troupes in Quangang District, Fujian province, which has a population of 300,000.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 63 - 76
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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