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Recorded Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 6:00-7:00 pm ET (3-4 pm PT) - a virtual (online) presentation of 170 Years of Chinese Opera in America, featuring author and professor of music, Dr. Nancy Yunhwa Rao.

Dr. Rao is a music theorist and has explored intersections between China and the West, in particular global perspectives in contemporary Chinese music. She is a chief expert in Chinese Opera in America. Her book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America, tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. She unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. Its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has received three book awards from the American Musicological Society, Society for American Music, and Associations for Asian American Studies.

Dr. Nancy Yunhwa Rao has produced award-winning research on a range of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans.

This presentation 170 Years of Chinese Opera in America accompanies the Chinese American Museum DC’s celebratory opening and new exhibition, Golden Threads: Chinese Opera in America of which Dr. Rao was a pivotal consultant.

Use the code: RAO40 to purchase Dr. Nancy Rao’s book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America at the publisher’s webpage to receive a special 40% discount during the Chinese American Museum opening month. Promotional discount valid through November.