CHINOPERL Papers No. 15 (1990)
Samuel H.N. Cheung: Structural Cyclicity in Shuihu Zhuan: From Self to Sworn Brotherhood
W.L. Idema: Zhu Youdun’s Plays as a Guide to Fifteenth-Century Performance Practice
Mark Bender: “Felling the Ancient Sweetgum”: Antiphonal Folk Epics of the Miao of Southeast Guizhou
David Moser: Reflexivity in the Humor of Xiangsheng
Kate Stevens: The Slopes of Changban: A Beijing Drumsong in the Liu Style (with translation)
Bronislawa Kordas: The Poetic Functions and the Oral Transmission of Chinese Proverbs
Lindy Li Mark: The Role of Avocational Performers in the Preservation of Kunqu
Hans H. Frankel: Hsü Wei as Drama Critic: An Annotated Translation of the Nan-tz’u Hsü-lu, by K.C. Leung. Book Review
CHINOPERL Papers No. 14 (1986)
Wu Xiaoling: Glowing Clouds in an Azure Sky: A Newly Discovered Royal Pageant, trans. Lindy Li Mark and Samuel H.N. Cheung
Rulan Chao Pian: Text and Musical Transcription of a Kaipian, “Birthday Wishes from the Eight Immortals”
Perry Link: “Stuck in Xiangsheng”
Lindy Li Mark: Kunju Theatre in the Transvestite Novel: Pinhua Baojian
Wen Li-rong: The Blind Singers of Guangzhou (transcribed by Chen Bing-han, translated by Bell Yung)
Yunhe Zhang: Argosies of Wonder on the Rivers and Lakes: Memories of the Guanju Troupe (translated and annotated by Lindy Li Mark)
Pu Songling: The Wall, a Folk Opera in Four Acts (trans. and annot. with an introduction by Chang Li-ching and Victor Mair)
CHINOPERL Papers No. 13 (1984–1985)
Rulan Chao Pian: The Autobiography of the Drum Singer, Jang Tsueyfenq (as told to Liou Fang)
Hans Frankel: The Relations between Narrator and Characters in Yuefu Ballads
Ji Hu: Three Decades of Kunqu in Modern China, 1956–1985
Wang Ch’iu-kuei: Research Activities in the Performing Arts in the Republic of China
Jan W. Walls: Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts, edited by Bonnie S. McDougall. Book Review
CHINOPERL Papers No. 12 (1983)
Lindy Li Mark: Tone and Tune in Kunqu
Rulan Chao Pian: Musical Elements in the Peking Opera Bah Wang Bye Ji
Susan Blader: “Yan Chasan Thrice Tested”: Printed Novel to Oral Tale
Jo Humphrey: The Chinese Shadow Theatre Today
Victor Mair: A Newly Identified Fragment of the “Translation of Wang Ling”
Bell Yung: “Rotten Big Drum” (concluded)
Kate Stevens: “A Short Life”: A Shandong Pattertale
CHINOPERL Papers No. 11 (1982)
Edward Gunn: Spoken Drama from 1978: Limited Innovation
Shu-Ying Tsao: Recent Developments in Spoken Drama
Ai-li S. Chin: Li Shimin, Prince of Qin: Dramatic Presentation as Art
Elizabeth J. Bernard: The Present State of Influence of Western Theatre on Spoken Drama Production in the People’s Republic of China
Shen Cheng-zhou: China’s New Musical Play
Pamela C. White: Peking Opera Today: Some Views of Performers
Bell Yung: Popular Narrative in the Pleasure Houses of the South: “Rotten Big Drum”
Kate Stevens: The Empty City Ruse: A Xiangsheng by Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru
Susan Blader and Kate Stevens: Field Report
CHINOPERL Papers No. 10 (1981)
Victor Mair: Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative: An Inventory of the Tun-huang Manuscripts
David Roy: The 15th-Century Shuo-ch’ang tz’u-hua as Examples of Written Formulaic Composition
Cyril Birch: The Dramatic Potential of Xi Shi, Elite versus Popular Elements in Huanshaji and Jiopaji
Jo Humphrey: The Yueh Lung Shadow Theatre, an Example of Cultural Preservation
Ellen Judd: New Yang’ge, the Case of A Worthy Sister-in-Law
John McCoy: Cantonese Folksongs: Authentication by Linguistic Criteria