Inside Chinese Theatre

Opera theatre forms an important part of Chinese Canadian cultural history. Since first appearing in Victoria in the 1860s, Chinese theatres were woven into the community’s everyday life, performing Cantonese opera, the regional genre known to the majority of Chinese immigrants who came from the Pearl River Delta of southern China. A brief survey of historical city maps from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century shows their central role in Chinese Canadian community of the Pacific Northwest. Recent discovery of a Chinese theatrical company’s daily business receipts provides a window into the performance culture and daily operations of a Chinese theatre between 1916 and 1918 in Vancouver. This vibrant period of the 1910s paved the way for full-fledged theatre operation in the following decade that brought about a new era of Chinese opera performance in Canada

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · China · Chinese culture · Immigration · Opera · Visual arts · History · Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies

• The black Atlantic

  Paul Gilroy•The black Atlantic•1993

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• The Rise of Cantonese Opera

  Wing Chung Ng•Rise of Cantonese Opera•2015

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• The Intermittent Rhythms Of The Cantonese Pacific

  Henry Yu•Connecting seas and connected…•2011

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• Ethnicity in the Americas

  Frances Henry•Ethnicity in the Americas•1976

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• Excerpt from Brokering Belonging

  Open Access•Lisa Rose Mar•Journal of Transnational American…•2011

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