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]

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[edit] Reference

  • 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

  1. ^ Pang, Cecilia J. (September 22). "(Re)cycling culture: Chinese opera in the United States". 
  2. ^ Zheng, Su. "Chinese Music", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 957-966.