Pear Garden in the West
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Nymphs, ancient and modern, mingle in a 1930s San Francisco Chinatown opera production.

Lady Precious Stream, a drama of wifely fidelity.

The final act of a Cantonese Opera 'persecution drama' of the 1930s in San Francisco.

  

Cross-fertilization

Cross-fertilization of the many cultures that make up modern American culture produced Chinese operas and plays in Western style and Western operas and plays in Chinese style.

  A patriotic opera staged at the Great China Theatre.

The escape of President Sun Yat-sen and his wife Soong Ching Ling from warlord troops in Canton, 1922.

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