Wing Chung Ng

Biographic Data

ID730343
NAMEWing Chung Ng
GIVEN NAMESWing Chung
FAMILY NAMENg
SIGNATURENG W C
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at San Antonio
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Kunqu

    Wing Chung NgARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2024

    In Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China, Joseph S. C. Lam seeks to tell the multifaceted story of a six-hundred-year-old genre of Chinese opera, focusing particularly on its recent efflorescence and ongoing evolution in the early twenty-first century. A student of the late professor Rulan Chao Pian at Harvard, who was a pioneer in the field of Chinese musicology, Lam has distinguished himself as a prolific scholar of Chinese mus…

  • T homas I rvine . Listening to China

    Open AccessWing Chung NgARTICLEThe American Historical Review2021

    Thomas Irvine’s Listening to China is a tour de force. A Mozart scholar, Irvine was inspired to explore the “soundscapes of the global eighteenth century” (201) while on a speaking engagement in Taiwan, his first ever academic excursion to the Chinese-speaking world back in 2009. This deeply researched monograph is the main product, thus far, of the author’s intellectual journey, hailing from the heartland of European musicology to become a globa…

  • Urbanization of Cantonese Opera

    Wing Chung NgBOOKRise of Cantonese Opera2017

    This chapter details the urban shift of Cantonese opera after the turn of the century, when a new kind of troupe came into being. These were the famous Sheng Gang ban , so named because these companies ( ban ) performed almost exclusively in the theaters of the twin cities in South China. The first part traces the process of urbanization to two developments underlying the formation of Sheng Gang ban : the beginning of commercial theater houses in…

  • The Rise of Cantonese Opera

    Wing Chung NgBOOKRise of Cantonese Opera2015

    Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional- and dialect-based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou—a transformation that changed it forever. This book charts Cantonese opera's confron…

  • Entries

    Open AccessHarry Liebersohn, Martin Klimke et al.CHAPTERPalgrave Dictionary of…2009

  • Sweet Cakes, Long Journey

    Wing Chung NgARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2005

    Book Review| April 01 2005 Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon, Marie Rose Wong. Wing Chung Ng Wing Chung Ng Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (3): 93–94. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501610 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wing C…

  • The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80

    Li Zhu, Zhu Li-ping et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2001Cited by: 9

    Journal Article The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power Get access The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945–80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power. By Ng Wing Chung. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999. xii + 201 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth; $29.95, paper.) Liping Zhu Liping Zhu Eastern Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…

  • The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80

    Wang Gungwu, Wing Chung NgARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

  • Forbidden Workers

    Wing Chung Ng, Peter KwongARTICLEPacific Affairs2001

  • Short notices

    Wing Chung Ng, Daniella Kostroun et al.ARTICLESocial History1999

    Sow‐Theng Leong, Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History: Hakkas, Pengmin, andTheir Neighbors, ed. Tim Wright, Introduction and Maps by G.William Skinner (1997), xiv + 234 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $45.00). Henry Phillips, Church and Culture in Seventeenth‐Century France (1997). ix + 334 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £40.00/559.95). Anna Karakasidou, Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedon…

  • Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan

    Wing Chung Ng, Michael J Brown et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1998

  • Unsubmissive Women

    Wing Chung Ng, Benson TongARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995Cited by: 1

  • Reluctant Exiles

    Wing Chung Ng, Ronald SkeldonARTICLEPacific Affairs1995Cited by: 1

  • Sowing the Seeds of Change

    Wing Chung Ng, Paula HarrellARTICLEPacific Affairs1994

  • The Forbidden City within Victoria

    Wing Chung Ng, David Chuenyan Lai et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article The Forbidden City within Victoria Get access The Forbidden City within Victoria. By Lai David Chuenyan. (Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 1991. xiii + 191 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $12.95, paper.) Wing Chung Ng Wing Chung Ng University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, November 1992, P…

  • Urban Chinese Social Organization

    Open AccessWing Chung NgARTICLEModern Asian Studies1992Cited by: 4References: 13

    Immigrant associations known commonly ashuiguanhave long been a research area among specialists on the Overseas Chinese. Recently, the same subject has attracted increasing attention among scholars who attempt to examine urban life in late imperial China. In either case, the existing historical literature seems to have focused on the two following aspects of huiguan development: the various principles of organizational formation such as common na…