ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the complexities of the unique Chinese market in which there are stringent controls applied by two levels of authority, state and regional governments, preventing the free dealing and product development that one would normally associate with a market environment. This work identifies the opera market as a top down macro monopoly: ideologically controlled by the party-state and economically managed by regional governments. In such a situation, the feedback loop of free markets is short-circuited as the yueju audience has little power to influence the market or the product, ideologically or economically. The book discusses, Shanghai's rapid urbanization through government concentrated economic capital and power across all fields greatly damages people's habitus and limits taste; these forms of control disavow yueju the opportunity for revival and thereby deny it a legitimate role in modern Shanghai.
