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CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature

Volume 40 (2021). Number 2

RESEARCH ARTICLES

“Making History”: Metatheatre in The Peach Blossom Fan
ALLISON BERNARD

TRANSLATION

Passionate Space of a Beijing Theater: Annotated Translation of an Excerpt from The Precious Mirror of Ranking Flowers (Pinhua Baojian)
NAIXI FENG

Wu Song Kills the Tiger: Transcription and Translation of a Cantonese Narrative Song from a Live Performance, with an Introduction
BELL YUNG

Wu Song Kills the Tiger Part 1


Wu Song Kills the Tiger Part 2


This sound clip is of a live performance of “Wu Song Kills the Tiger” sung by the blind singer Dou Wun 杜煥 in the Fu Long Teahouse 富隆茶樓 in Hong Kong, made by Bell Yung. Part 1 was from a performance on April 22, 1975, part 2 two days later. Information on the song, its content and style, and the complete lyric transcribed from the recording, can be found in the article “Wu Song Kills the Tiger: transcription and translation of a Cantonese narrative song from a live performance, with an introduction,” published in CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 40. 2 (December 2021): 144–181. The first sound clip corresponds to Part 1 in the article (Lines 1-112). The recording has been published as Tracks 1 and 2 of CD 1, in the two-CD package called “Excerpts from Literary Masterpieces”, as set number seven of eight CD sets called “Hong Kong’s Cultural Treasure Series’, published by the Chinese Music Archive, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016.

The production of this journal is generously supported by Vassar College.



CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature

Volume 40 (2021). Number 1

From the Old and New Editors
MARGARET B. WAN, JING SHEN

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Meat, Ghost, Tumor, and Goddess: The Afterlife of a Female Martyr
XIAN WANG

Retelling the Tale of Lan Huahua: Desire, Stigma, and Social Change in Modern China
LEVI S. GIBBS

TRANSLATION

Shan Ameng, Shaanxi Songs of a Boudoir Beauty (Also known as Zither Songs of a Boudoir Beauty or Marital Harmony and credited to Pu Songling)
WILT L. IDEMA

BOOK REVIEW

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature: Tales and Commentary by Wilt L. Idema (review)
MARGARET B. WAN

RESEARCH NOTE

Lutes Abroad: Translations, Productions, and Derivations of Pipa ji in Western Languages
JOSH STENBERG

 

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