Hong Took Tong Chinese Dramatic Company
- Hong Took Tong Chinese Dramatic Company
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. [cite journal|title=(Re)cycling culture: Chinese opera in the United States|date=September 22|year=2005|last=Pang|first=Cecilia J.|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5884534/Re-cycling-culture-Chinese-opera.html|unused_data=|journalComparative Drama|] A performance in 1852 was the first Cantonese opera ever shown in the country. [cite book|title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|chapter=Chinese Music|last=Zheng|first=Su|pages=957–966]
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* cite book
last = Koskoff
first = Ellen (ed.)
isbn = 0-8240-4944-6
publisher = Garland Publishing
title = Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada
year = 2000
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