Cantonese Opera in Its Canadian Context: The Contemporary Vitality of an Old Tradition
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Abstract
Cantonese opera has had a history of more than 100 years in British Columbia, and has been performed from the second decade of this century in those Canadian cities with significant populations of Chinese origin. It is currently extremely popular in Vancouver and Toronto, with large numbers of well-attended performances every year, most put on by local amateurs. In the earlier years performances were primarily given by professional troupes touring from China, meeting the needs of the segregated Chinese Canadians for familiar entertainment. Since the 1920s, local non-profit organizations dedicated to the purpose have trained amateur performers and organized their own performances as well as tours by actors and troupes from Hong Kong and Canton. During the last few years, many professionals have immigrated to Canada and opera has moved towards a more commercial organizational base. L'opéra cantonais est joué depuis plus de cent ans en Colombie Britannique et depuis la deuxième décennie de ce siècle dans les villes canadiennes qui ont des concentrations importantes de population d'origine chinoise. Présentement, l'opéra cantonais est très populaire à Vancouver et à Toronto où un grand nombre de spectacles, dont la plupart sont organisés par des amateurs locaux, attirent beaucoup de spectateurs. Au début, ces représentations étaient le fait de troupes professionnelles venues de Chine pour offrir des divertissements familiers aux canadiens-chinois. Depuis les années 20, des organismes locaux à but non lucratif ont formé des acteurs amateurs et monté leurs propres spectacles en plus de régler les tournées des acteurs professionels venus de Hong Kong et de Canton. Depuis quelques années, plusieurs acteurs professionnels ont immigré au Canada et l'opéra s'est doté d'une base organisationnelle plus commerciale.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".