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Volume 39 (2018). Number 2
RESEARCH ARTICLES
A Surrogate Hero: Generic Innovation and Reinventions of Masculinity in Naihe TianLENORE SZEKELY
Recognizing the Dark Aura: An Excerpt of The Legend of White Snake as a Festival Ritual in Late Qing Sichuan Opera
AARON BALIVET
Li Xuefang Meets Mei Lanfang: Cantonese Opera's Significant Rise in 1920s Shanghai and Beyond
NANCY YUNHWA RAO
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Performance Review: The White Snake, Constellation Theatre Company, Washington, D.C., April 25–May 26, 2019LIANG LUO
BOOK REVIEW
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas: A Socio-Cultural Study by Caroline Chia (review)LEE TONG SOON
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Special Issue on Regional Language and Performance Texts in the QingCATHERINE SWATEK, MARGARET WAN
Suzhou Dialect, Social Status, and Gender in Sancaifu, a Rediscovered Mid-Qing Chuanqi Play
WU CUNCUN
Dialect Humor and Local Sentiment in Two Plays by the Suzhou Playwright Li Yu (李玉, 1602?–Post 1676)
CATHERINE SWATEK
Drum Ballads and Northern “Vernacular” in the Qing and Early Republic
MARGARET B. WAN
Experimenting with the National Language: Use of Manchu in Bannermen Poetry and Songs in the Nineteenth Century
BINGYU ZHENG
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
Co-creations, Master Texts, and Monuments: Long Narrative Poems of Ethnic Minority Groups in ChinaMARK BENDER
Russian Studies of Chinese Traditional Drama and Storytelling Literature: An Overview
ROSTISLAV BEREZKIN, DMITRII MAIATSKII
Revisiting WESTERN HAN in Written Script and in Oral Performance: Language, Style, Length, and the Question of Exegesis
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
Storytellers, Sermons, Sales Pitches, and other Deceptive Features of City Life: A Cognitive Approach to Point of View in Chinese Plays
CASEY SCHOENBERGER
BOOK REVIEWS
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality by Ling Hon Lam (review)S. E. KILE
Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China by Rostislav Berezkin (review)
KATHERINE ALEXANDER
RESEARCH NOTE
Neglected Materials on Shihua (Tales with Poems) as a Genre of Buddhist Narrative of the Song DynastyWILT L. IDEMA
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Letter from the EditorsMARGARET WAN, VIBEKE BØRDAHL, CATHERINE SWATEK, JING SHEN
CHINOPERL’s Metamorphoses—Some Memories at her 50th Birthday
BELL YUNG
ARTICLES
Down there on a Visit: A Historian in “The Field”DAVID JOHNSON
Selling Scandal in the Republican Era: Folk Opera in Performance and Print
ANNE E. MCLAREN
Oral Epics Along the Silk Road: The Turkic Traditions of Xinjiang
KARL REICHL
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Volume 37 (2018). Number 2
ARTICLES
The Production of Zidishu in Manuscript and Print During the Qing and Republican Eras: A Survey of the Extant CorpusZHENZHEN LU
Mei Lanfang Studies in Retrospect: Shifting Perspectives in English-Language Scholarship
DA LIN
Nordahl Grieg and Mei Lanfang: Truth of Observation or “Truth” of a Creative Memory?
VIBEKE BØRDAHL, PER E. BØRDAHL
CONFERENCE REPORT
A Report on “East and West—International Conference on Mei Lanfang, Stanislavski, and Brecht,” Beijing, China, October 2018DA LIN
PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA REVIEWS
Snow in Midsummer, by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Based on the Classical Chinese Drama The Injustice to Dou E That Moved Heaven and Earth by Guan Hanqing. U. S. Premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland Oregon, August 2–October 27, 2018CATHERINE SWATEK
Modern Faces of Taiwanese Gezai xi Opera: Two Plays by Sunhope Taiwanese Opera Troupe
SHU-CHU WEI
BOOK REVIEWS
Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera During the Cultural Revolution by Xing Fan (review)MEGAN AMMIRATI
Soundtracks of Asian America: Navigating Race Through Musical Performance by Grace Wang (review)
YUN EMILY WANG
Performing China on the London Stage: Chinese Opera and Global Power, 1759–2008 by Ashley Thorpe (review)
PAIZE KEULEMANS
RESEARCH NOTE
Jingju lishi wenxian huibian: Qingdai juan: Xubian 京劇歷史文獻彙編: 清代卷, 續 編 (Collected historical writings on Jingju: Qing dynasty section, supplemental volumes) ed. by Fu Jin 傅謹DAVID L. ROLSTON
IN MEMORIAM
In Memory of Oldřich KrálLUCIE OLIVOVÁ
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ARTICLES
Gezai xi in Singapore: Oral Transmission, Improvisation and Dependence on “Fixed Texts”CAROLINE CHIA
TRANSLATION
The Contemporary World in Republican-era Adaptations of Old Themes in Traditional Genres of Performative Literature: The Newest Version of the Complete Song of the Mutual Accusations of the Cat and The MouseWILT L. IDEMA
PERFORMANCE REVIEW ARTICLE
Two Decades of Selling Peking Opera White Snakes to Foreigners: From Tourist Peking Opera in Beijing (1996) to Zhang Huoding at Lincoln Center (2015)DAVID L. ROLSTON
BOOK REVIEWS
Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script ed. by Vibeke Børdahl, Liangyan Ge (review) ANNE E. MCLARENMarionette Plays from Northern China by Fan Pen Li Chen (review)
BRADFORD CLARK
Qupai in Chinese Music: Melodic Models in Form and Practice ed. by Alan R. Thrasher (review)
J. LAWRENCE WITZLEBEN
Voices of Taiwanese Women: Three Contemporary Plays ed. by John Weinstein (review) TARRYN LI-MIN CHUN
Chinese Ethnic Minority Oral Traditions: A Recovered Text of Bai Folk Songs in a Sinoxenic Script ed. by Fu Jingqi, et al (review)
CHARLOTTE D'EVELYN
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao (review)
LAURENCE CODERRE
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ARTICLES
Conservative Confucian Values and the Promotion of Oral Performance Literature in Late Qing Jiangnan: Yu Zhi’s Influence on Two Appropriations of Liu Xiang BaojuanKATHERINE ALEXANDER
REPORTS
Promoting Beijing Opera in America: The Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton UniversityZU-YAN CHEN
Report on the First “In Art We Trust” Chinese Opera in New York Forum, New York City, USA, 2016
DONG SUN
BOOK REVIEWS
The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu by Wilt L. Idema (review)DAVID JOHNSON
Passion, Poverty, and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads by Wilt L. Idema (review)
MARK BENDER
The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun by Wilt L. Idema (review)
PAIZE KEULEMANS
The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949–1956) by Wilt L. Idema (review)
PAOLA IOVENE
Ershi shiji xiqu gaige de sanda fanshi 20 世紀戲曲改革的三大範式 by Li Wei 李偉 (review)
LIANG LUO 羅靚
Zai ni wenhou de xiaorong zhong dangyang: Jinian Hafo daxue shouwei Huayi nü jiaoshou Zhao Rulan 在你溫厚的笑容中蕩漾: 紀念哈佛大學首位華裔女教授趙如 蘭 / Remembering Rulan Chao Pian: Harvard’s First Female Professor of Chinese Heritage ed. by Bell Yung 榮鴻曾 and Samuel Wu 吳淼鑫 (review)
CHUEN-FUNG WONG
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Shuihu (Water Margin) and Honglou (Dream of the Red Chamber) Adaptations on the Modern StageJING SHEN
RESEARCH NOTES
From First-Person to Third-person Narrative, and then to Hakka Ballad: From “Tang Xuan shouji” (Tang Xuan’s Manuscript Notes) To “Tang Xuan” To “Tang Xian ji” (The Story of Tang Xian)WILT L. IDEMA
The 2015 Contest of Baojuan Performers and Academic Conference in Zhoupu and Modernized “Scroll Recitation” in Pudong
ROSTISLAV BEREZKIN
Mei Lanfang quanji 梅 蘭芳全集 (The complete works of Mei Lanfang). Edited by Fu Jin 傅謹. 8 vols. Beijing: Beijing chubanshe and Zhongguo xiju chuban she, 2016
DAVID L. ROLSTON
IN MEMORIAM
In Memory of André Lévy: Extraordinary Scholar and Translator 1925–2017MARGARET WAN, VIBEKE BØRDAHL
In Memory of Catherine “Kate” Stevens 1927–2016
MARGARET B. WAN
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ARTICLES
IntroductionXU PENG
Hearing the Opera: “Teahouse Mimesis” and the Aesthetics of Noise in Early Jingju Recordings, 1890s—1910s
XU PENG
Qi Rushan, Gewu (Song-and-Dance), and the History of Contemporary Peking Opera in Early Twentieth-Century China
HSIAO-CHUN Wun
Locating Theatricality on Stage and Screen: Rescuing Performance Practice and the Phenomenon of Fifteen Strings of Cash (Shiwu Guan; 1956)
ANNE REBULL
BOOK REVIEWS
City of the Dead and Song of the Night by Gao Xingjian (review)WILT L. IDEMA
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions tr. and intro. by Stephen H. West, Wilt L. Idema (review)
HONGCHU FU
The Rise of Cantonese Opera by Wing Chung Ng (review)
YU XIU WAH
Singing on the River: Sichuan Boatmen and Their Work Songs, 1880s–1930s Igor Iwo Chabrowski (review)
ANNE E. MCLAREN
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Volume 35 (2016). Number 2
ARTICLES
If You Can Recite It You Can Play It: The Transmission and Transcription of Jingju (Peking Opera) Percussion Music
PO-WEI WENG
Press Reviews of Mei Lanfang in the Soviet Union, 1935, by Female Writers: Neher Versus Shaginyan
JANNE RISUM
Heluo dagu chuantong dashu xuan (Selected Traditional Grand Stories from Heluo Drumsinging): An Attempt to Negotiate between the Fixed and Plastic Aspects of Chinese Traditional Narrative Oral Literature
DA LIN
Kunqu baizhong, Dashi shuoxi (One hundred pieces of Kunqu, Master performers talk about their scenes): A Review Essay
KIM HUNTER GORDON
REPORTS
An Annotated Translation of Zhang Jiqing's Lecture on Playing Cui-shi in Chimeng (The Mad Dream): A Sample Lecture from Kunqu baizhong, Dashi shuoxi (ONE HUNDRED PIECES OF Kunqu, Master Performers Talk About Their Scenes)
JOSH STENBERG
A Report on the International Conference in Honor of Professor Tseng Yong-Yih (Zeng Yongyi), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
WILT L. IDEMA
BOOK REVIEWS
Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China
MEI CHUN
Yangzhou: A Place in Literature, The Local in Chinese Cultural History
TOBIE MEYER-FONG
Zhongguo baojuan shengtaihua baohu yu chuancheng jiaoliu yantao hui lunwen ji 中國寶卷生態化保護與傳承交流研討會論文集 (Collected articles from a conference on the ecological preservation and transmission of baojuan in China)
ROSTISLAV BEREZKIN
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ARTICLES
Maids, Fishermen, and Storytellers: Rewriting Marginal Characters in Early Qing Drama and Fiction
MARIA FRANCA SIBAU
Liu Qingti’s Canine Rebirth and Her Ritual Career as the Heavenly Dog: Recasting Mulian’s Mother in Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) Recitation
XIAOSU SUN
BOOK REVIEWS
La réforme de l’opéra de Pékin [Peking opera reform]. By Maël Renouard
JOSH STENBERG
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History. By James A. Benn.
PETER MICIC
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera. By Ma Haili.
EMILY E. WILCOX
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
The 2015 Inaugural Shanghai Experimental Xiqu (Chinese Indigenous Theater) Festival, December 1-6
JOSH STENBERG
Two Beijing Spoken Drama Comedies Featuring Social Critique Seen in the Summer of 2014
JING SHEN
Zhang Huoding’s Performances of Legend of the White Snake and The Jewelry Purse at
David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center on September 2 and 3, 2015
ROSE JANG
IN MEMORIAM
In Memory of Věna Hrdličková, 1925–2016
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
Volume 34 (2015). Number 2
ARTICLE
Literati Use of Oral or Oral-Related Genres to Talk about History in the Late Ming and Early Qing: From Yang Shen to Jia Fuxi and Gui Zhuang, and from Education (Jiaohua) to Cursing the World (Mashi)
YINGZHI ZHAO
Music Creating Literature and Literature Creating Music: Luo Yusheng's Beijing Drum Song Versions of the Story of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi
FRANCESCA R. SBORGI LAWSON
FIELD REPORTS
Entertaining Deities and Humans with Performances of Puju (Puzhou Opera) at a Temple Fair in Yangxie Village, Southwestern Shanxi, May 29–June 2, 2013
ZIYING YOU
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP REPORTS
A Report on the 2014 UNIMA (Union Internationale De La Marionette) Conference, Nanchong, Sichuan, China
MARY E. HIRSCH
A Report on the 2014 Chime Workshop “Storysinging and Storytelling in China”
RÜDIGER BREUER
A Report on the International Conference on Chinese Baojuan (Precious Scrolls), Yangzhou, China, 2014
ROSTISLAV BEREZKIN
BOOK REVIEWS
Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
JENNIFER W. JAY
Uncle Ng Comes to America: Chinese Narrative Songs of Immigration and Love
CHUEN-FUNG WONG
PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA REVIEWS
Performance Review: Nanguan Meets Modern Chinese Poetry: Wang Xinxin's Nanguan shiyi (Nanguan/Poetic meaning) Taiwan Tour, May 2015
JOSH STENBERG
Media Review: Cheuk Cheung's My Way (Qiandan lu): A Documentary Film on Male Performers of Female Roles in Cantonese Opera
BELL YUNG
RESEARCH NOTES
Recent Chronologically Organized Reference Books Concerning Chinese Indigenous Theater (XIQU)
DAVID L. ROLSTON
Research note: Recent Color Reproductions of Qing Dynasty Palace Multi-colored Play Scripts
DAVID L. ROLSTON
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Volume 34 (2015). Number 1
ARTICLES
Dream, Drama, Metadrama: Tang Xianzu in/and Jiang Shiquan’s Linchuan meng (Dreams of Linchuan)
QIANCHENG LI
Teaching American Students the “Essence” of Chinese Theatre at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (Zhongguo xiqu xueyuan)
ROSE JANG
REPORT
A Report on the Sixth International Nanxi (Southern Drama) Conference (2014)
JOSH STENBERG
The Touring Canteen: Notes from the 2014 European Tour of the Quanzhou Liyuan Theatre
JOSH STENBERG
BOOK REVIEWS
Battles, Betrayals and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms, by Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West
KIMBERLY A. BESIO
Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel, by Margaret B. Wan
WILT L. IDEMA
Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the
Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling, by Vibeke Børdahl
MARGARET B. WAN
Damei Kunqu (The Great Beauty of Kun Opera), by Yang Shousong
JOSH STENBERG
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
The American Conservatory Theater/La Jolla Playhouse Co-Production of The Orphan of Zhao
CATHRYN FAIRLEE
MEMORIALS
Liu Zengfu (1914–2012): One of the Last Connoisseurs of Jingju (Peking Opera)
XU PENG
RESEARCH NOTES
Recent Chronologically Organized Reference Books Concerning Chinese Indigenous Theater (Xiqu)
DAVID L. ROLSTON
Recent Color Reproductions of Qing Dynasty Palace Multi-Colored Play Scripts
DAVID L. ROLSTON
CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
Volume 33 (2014). Number 2
ARTICLES
JOSEPH S. C. LAM. A Kunqu Masterpiece and its Interpretations: Tanci (The Ballad) from Hong Sheng’s Changsheng Dian (Palace of Lasting Life)
YU SIU WAH. Ng Wing Mui (Mui Yee) and the Revival of the Sineung (Blind Female) Singing Style in Cantonese Naamyam (Southern Tone)
‘‘MRS PIAN’’ AND MUSIC
BELL YUNG. Remembering Mrs Pian, my Mentor and Friend
Photographs of Rulan Chao Pian
Photos and captions provided by Bell Yung
‘‘JAW LAOSHY’’ AND TEACHING CHINESE
Edited and Introduced by Perry Link
PERRY LINK. Introduction
JUNE TEUFEL DREYER. Rulan Chao Pian
JAMES R. PUSEY. Jaw Rulan
THOMAS BARTLETT. In Memoriam Rulan Chao Pian, Teacher, Colleague, and Friend
CHARLES W. HAYFORD. Thoughts on Rulan Pian, on Room 106, and How to Speak and Cook in Chinese
PERRY LINK. Jaw Laoshy
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From the Editor
ARTICLES
XIAOQIAO LING. Home and Imagined Stage in Ding Yaokang’s Huaren you (Ramblings with Magicians): The Communal Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Play
MEREDITH SCHWEIG. Hoklo Hip-Hop: Resignifying Rap as Local Narrative Tradition in Taiwan
TRANSLATIONS
ZHENZHEN LU. “ Scrounging for a School” (“Naoguan”), A Play by Pu Songling
FIELD REPORTS
MARK BENDER. King of Yalu in Mashan, Guizhou: An “Epic” in Contemporary Contexts
RESEARCH NOTES
DAVID L. ROLSTON. Introducing a Resource on Music and Oral Performing Literature in the Ming Novel Jin Ping Mei cihua Made Available in Celebration of the Completion of David Tod Roy’s Translation
DAVID L. ROLSTON. Recent Chronologically Organized Reference Books Concerning Chinese Indigenous Theater (Xiqu)
DAVID L. ROLSTON. Recent Color Reproductions of Qing Dynasty Palace Multi-Colored Play Scripts
CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
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Articles
ROSTISLAV BEREZKIN. A Rare Early Manuscript of the Mulian Story in the Baojuan (Precious Scroll) Genre Preserved in Russia, and its Place in the History of the Genre
THOMAS KELLY. Putting on a Play in an Underworld Courtroom: The ‘‘Mingpan’’ (Infernal Judgment) Scene in Tang Xianzu’s Mudan ting (Peony Pavilion)
Translations
TIMOTHY THURSTON. ‘‘Careful Village’s Grassland Dispute’’: An A mdo Dialect Tibetan Crosstalk Performance by Sman bla skyabs
Book Reviews
BAN WANG. A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. By Barbara Mittler
CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
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Editorial
Original Article
LINDY LI MARK. From Page to Stage: Exploring Some Mysteries of Kunqu Music and its Melodic Characteristics
Translation
FAN PEN CHEN. “Cloud-Transcending Crossing” (“Lingyun Du”) or “The Great Revenge of Blue Snake” (“Qingshe Da Baochou”), The Second and Final Installment of a Chengdu Shadow Play Script, Thunder Peak Pagoda (Leifeng Ta)
Reports
MARY E. HIRSCH. Report on the Chinese Shadow Theater Symposium, University of Connecticut, October 26-27, 2012.
EMILY E. WILCOX. A Report on the Shanghai Theatre Academy Winter Institute 2013: "Shanghai Encounters"
JUDITH T. ZEITLIN. Report on "Chinese Opera Film: At the Intersection of Theater Cinema, and Politics," An International Conference Held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, June 14-16, 2012
Book Reviews
ERIC TODD SHEPHERD. The Narrative Arts of Tiān Jīn: Between Music and Language. By Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson
Communications from Readers
MIN TIAN. Mei Lanfang, Brecht, Meyerhold, and Other Issues: A Reply to Janne Risum
CHINOPERL Papers No. 31 (2012)
Articles
Jing Shen, Ranking Plays and Playwrights in Traditional Chinese Drama Criticism
Translations
Wilt L. Idema, Fourth Sister Zhang Creates Havoc in the Eastern Capital
Wenwei Du, Golden Dragon and Mayfly: A Huaiju Play by Luo Huaizhen
Bibliographies and Bibliographic Surveys
Wilt L. Idema, English-Language Studies of Precious Scrolls: A Bibliographical Survey
Emily E. Wilcox, English-Language Publications on Chinese Dance: A Bibliography
Performance Review
Ho-Chak Law, Making the Ancient Past Serve the Global Present: A Review of Suzhou Kun Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province’s September 2012 Performances in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Exhibition Reviews
Noga Ganany, Review of the Exhibition “Theater, Life, and the Afterlife: Tomb Décor of the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi” at the China Institute, New York (February 9 – June 17, 2012)
Book Reviews
Rostislav Berezkin, Chūgoku nōson no geinō: Taiko ryūiki shakaishi kōjutsu kirokushū 2 (Performing arts in the Chinese village: A collection of oral records of social history in the Taihu Lake Basin, volume 2), by Satō Yoshifumi et al.
Rostislav Berezkin, Taiwan Minnan sangli wenhua yu minjian wenxue (The culture of Taiwanese Hokkien funerals and folk literature), by Yang Shixian
Jennifer W. Jay, Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors, by Fan Pen Li Chen
Janne Risum, Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced, by Min Tian
Ivo Spira, Donggan minjian gushi chuanshuo ji (Collection of Dungan folktales and legends), by Li Fuqing (Boris Riftin), with transcriptions from the Dungan language by Hai Feng and translations from the Russian by Lian Shusheng
Lenore J. Szekely, Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren, by Jing Shen
Media Reviews
Chuen-Fong Wong, Naamyam Songs of Love and Longing: Live Recordings of the Legendary Blind Naamyam Singer Dou Wun at the Fu Long Tea House in 1975, Hong Kong (Su zhongqing: Du Huan gushi dishui nanyin jingxuan), performed by Dou Wun; Blind Dou Wun Remembers His Past: 50 Years of Singing Naamyam in Hong Kong (Piaobo xiangjiang wushi nian dishuo nanyin: quanben Shiming ren Du Huan yi wang), performed by Dou Wun; Rare Recordings of Melodies from a Bygone Age (Jueshi yiyin—banyan, longzhou, Yue’ou), performed by Dou Wun and Lee Ngan-giu; and Jade Palm—Leaf Fan, Sung by Blind Master Dou Wun in Dragon Boat Style (Yukui baoshan zhi Danao Mei zhifu, Birong tanjian), performed by Dou Wun
In Memoriam
Bell Yung, In Memory of Liu Chun-jo (1922–2012)
Rostislav Berezkin, Academician Boris L’vovich Riftin (1932–2012): The Extraordinary Life of a Brilliant Scholar
Vibeke Børdahl, In Memory of Antoinet Schimmelpenninck (1962–2012)
Frank Kouvenhoven, A Bibliography of the Work of Antoinet Schimmelpenninck (1962–2012)
Addenda
Annual CHINOPERL Conference Program, 2012
Annual Financial Report, 2012
Contents of the Back Issues of CHINOPERL News/Papers
Back Issue Order Form
CHINOPERL Papers Style Sheet
CHINOPERL and CHINOPERL Papers Contact Information
Change of Publisher Announcement
CHINOPERL Papers No. 30 (2011) 
Articles
Elena Suet-Ying Chiu: The Origins and Original Language of Manchu Bannermen Tales (Zidi shu)
Hsiao-Mei Hsieh, Where Have All the Different Butterfly Lovers Gone? The Homogenization of Local Theater as a Result of the Theater Reform in China as Seen in Gezai xi/Xiangju
Rostislav Berezkin: An Analysis of “Telling Scriptures” (Jiangjing) During Temple Festivals in Gangkou (Zhangjiagang), With Special Attention to the Status of the Performers
Qiliang He: High Ranking Party Bureaucrats and Oral Performing Literature: The Case of Chen Yun and Pingtan in The People’s Republic of China
Rose Jang: Learning Yuzhou feng (Sword of the Cosmos): A Journey into the Heart of the Art of Mei Lanfang
Colin Mackerras: Tourism and Musical Performing Arts in China in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century: A Personal View
Translations
Mary E. Hirsch: Zi cha (Mistaken Characters): A Short Shadow Play from Beijing
Performance Reviews
Sarah E. Kile: Sensational Kunqu: A Performance Review of the May 2011 Beijing Production of Lian Xiang Ban (Women in Love)
Xu Peng: The Essential Li Yu Resurrected: A Performance Review of the 2011 Beijing Production of Lian Xiang Ban (Women in Love)
Dongshin Chang: “Xiang yong” (Poems on Fragrance): A Translation of a Scene from Li Yu’s Liang xiang ban (The Fragrant Companion)
Conference Reports
Min Yen Ong: A Report on the 2010 Tiger Hill Amateur Kunqu Festival
Janne Risum: Chinese Themes at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference in Osaka in August 2011
Book Reviews
Carolyn Fitzgerald: Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts, edited and translated by Wilt Idema and Shiamin Kwa
Liangyan Ge: The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, edited with an introduction by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender
Regina Llamas: The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature, edited with an introduction by Vibeke Børdahl and Margaret B Wan
Short Notices of New Resources
Vibeke Børdahl: Writing Homer: A Study Based on Results from Modern Fieldwork, by Minna Skafte Jensen
David L. Rolston: Jingju lishi wenxian huibian: Qingdai juan (Collected Historical Writings on Jingju: Qing Dynasty Section), edited by Fu Jin