Back Volumes 2001–2010

CHINOPERL Papers No. 29 (2010)

From the Editor

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)

From the Editor

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