CHINOPERL Papers No. 29 (2010)
ARTICLES
Attempts to Adapt the Novel Honglou meng as a Chuanqi Drama
JING SHEN
Mandarin Ducks at the Battlefield: Ouyang Yuqian's Shifting Reconfigurations of Nora and Mulan
CAROLYN FITZGERALD
Nine Generations of Pi Wu Lazi (Pi the Fifth, the Hot Pepper) in Yangzhou Pinghua
CATHRYN FAIRLEE
TRANSLATIONS
"Baldy's Wedding Night": A Post-Midnight Marionette Play from Shaanxi
FAN PEN CHEN
Four Miao Ballads from Hainan
WILT L. IDEMA
RESOURCES
Boris Riftin and Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints as Sources on Traditional Chinese Theater
ELLEN JOHNSTON LAING
CONFERENCE REPORTS AND PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
The Imperial Granary Production of Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion)
COLIN MACKERRAS
2010 Commemorations of the Theatrical Careers of Cao Yu and Li Yuru
LI RURU
Yangzhou Pinghua Storyteller Ma Xiaolong Tours Europe
RÜDIGER BREUER
A Report on the Conference "Corporeal Nationalisms: Dance and the State in East Asia," September 10–12, 2010, University of California, Berkeley
ELIZABETH WICHMANN-WALCZAK
BOOK REVIEWS
Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays, ed. and trans. by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema (review)
HONGCHU FU
The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World, by Li Ruru (review)
COLIN MACKERRAS
The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Four Versions, with Related Texts, ed. and trans. by Wilt L. Idema (review)
ANNE MCLAREN
CHINOPERL Papers No. 28 (2008–2009)
ARTICLES
Deconstructing Chinese Opera: Tears on Barren Hill on the Contemporary Stage
BELL YUNG
Short Version of River Yang (a.k.a., The Four Saints Return to Heaven): A Marionette Play from Shaanxi
FAN PEN CHEN
Eavesdropping in the Afterlife: Love and Filial Piety in Chuanqi Drama
VICTOR CARVELLAS
REPORTS AND REVIEWS
A Report on the Oslo Symposium on The Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Chinese Fiction, Drama and Performance Literature, Nov. 5–6, 2007, Oslo, Norway
REGINA LLAMAS
The Role of the Chou ("Clown") in Traditional Chinese Drama, by Ashley Thorpe (review)
FAN PEN CHEN
IN MEMORIAM
Gao Zaihua (1929–2009) — includes Gao's autobiography, "How I Studied the Art of Storytelling"
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
Theodore Pian (1919–2009)
BELL YUNG
CHINOPERL Papers No. 27 (2007)
Special issue on Storytelling, dedicated to Kate Stevens
Letter from the Editors
Kate Stevens, Quirky Friend of China's Performed Narrative Arts
WANG JINGSHOU
Kate Stevens is My Friend
SUSAN BLADER
To the American Conference for Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
SUN SHUJUN
Shi Qingzhao and Her Research on Chinese Performed Narrative Arts
CAI YUANLI AND BAO CHENGJIE
A Tribute and an Irish Blessing for Kate
VICTOR MAIR
To My Storytelling Mentor
CATHRYN FAIRLEE
The Story of Lao Ma and Its Versions in Beijing Storytelling
VENAN HRDLIČKOVÁ
The Function of Written Text in Chinese Oral Narrative: The Process of Composition in Laoting dagu
JUNKO IGUCHI
A Drum Tale on "Wu Song Fights the Tiger"
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
The "Tale of Wu Song" in Chinese Popular Prints
BORIS RIFTIN
The Wopao zhuan and Other Dramas in Shan'ge and Shidiao Songs of Late Qing China
STEFAN KUZAY
Turning a Blind Ear: Bards of Shaanbei
STEPHEN JONES
Ashima and Gamo Anyo: Aspects of Two "Yi" Narrative Poems
MARK BENDER
Commercialization and Chinese Traditional Theater and Storytelling in the Reform Period
COLIN MACKERRAS
Review of Kate Stevens, Chinese Storytelling
LINDY LI MARK
CHINOPERL Papers No. 26 (2005–2006)
Special issue dedicated to James I. Crump, Jr.
Xiangkong laoweng (The Codger Who Soars through the Sky): James I. Crump, Jr., and Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (Including a Bibliography of Professor Crump's Published Scholarly Writing)
JEFF KELLER
Remembering Jim
CYRIL BIRCH
Jim Crump: A Sinologist who Loved and Taught the Pleasures of Life
MILENA DELEŽELOVÁ-VELIGEROVÁ
My Adventure of Working with Jim Crump
SHU-CHU WEI
The Moheluo Doll Revisited: Yuan Drama in the Late Ming
KIMBERLY BESIO
Li Kaixian's Revised Plays by Yuan Masters (Gaiding Yuanxian chuanqi) and the Textual Transmission of Yuan Zaju as Seen in Two Plays by Ma Zhiyuan
WILT L. IDEMA
The Story of the Haunted Grave Mound
DANA KALVODOVÁ
"With this Door between Us": Visualizing Pathos in Rain on the Xiaoxiang, "Barely"
CHING-HSI PERNG
Rethinking the History of Early Sanqu Songs
PATRICIA SIEBER
Jin Shengtan, Mao Qiling, Commentary and Sex, and the Caizi Mudan ting Notes to Story of the Western Wing
STEPHEN H. WEST
From Revenge to What?: Seven Hundred Years of Transformations of The Orphan of Zhao
SHIAO-LING YU
Translations from Wang Bocheng's Tales of the Tianbao Era (Tianbao yishi): Genre and Eroticism in the Zhugongdiao
FAN PEN CHEN
Qiaoying (The Image in Disguise), by Wu Za
SHU-CHU WEI
CHINOPERL Papers No. 25 (2003–2004)
The Voice of Wang Shaotang in Yangzhou Storytelling
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
Forbidden Fruits: Prohibitions on the Performance of Female and Han Ethnic Identities
FAN PEN CHEN
Chinese and Japanese Storytelling: Selected Topical Bibliography of Věna Hrdličková and Zdeněk Hrdlička, with an Introduction
LUCIE OLIVOVÁ
Report on the Shanghai Hybrid Production of The Peach Blossom Fan using Kunqu and Peking Opera Forms
SHU-CHU WEI
IN MEMORIAM
Hans Hermann Frankel; Mourning the Passing of Dana Kalvodová; Professor J. I. Crump
CHINOPERL Papers No. 24 (2002)
The Concept of Bense in Ming Drama Criticism
JING SHEN
Exploring the Historical Development of Nanxi, Southern Theater
MEI SUN
"Red Cliffs" in Taiwanese Hanbun
DAVID BRANNER
Zhao Jingshen's Editing of the Shanghai Special Vernacular Literature Weekly Features (trans. Kathryn Lowry)
GUAN JIAZHENG
ROUNDTABLE ON ORAL PERFORMANCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Chinese Folk Tradition and Digital Video
MARK BENDER
Oral Performance in Print and Webcast
MARGARET BAPTIST WAN
Digital Technology and Documentation of the Oral Tradition
FAN PEN CHEN
OPEN FORUM
Report on the Kunqu Concert at Lion Hill and the Kunqu Amateur Convention at Suzhou, November 2001
BRET SUTCLIFFE
Notice of the Website of Chinese Storytelling
CHINOPERL Papers No. 23 (2000–2001)
The Collecting and Editing of Taoist Ritual Texts
C. K. WANG
Sithat Auk Boht: A Tai Buddhist Tale from Yunnan
SARA DAVIS
Die Merkwürdige Geschichte der Sai Jinhua, by Stephan von Minden (review)
JON KOWALLIS
Conference Report of Beyond Peony Pavilion: Performance, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, April 27–28, 2001
YU LI