Back Volumes 1981–1990

CHINOPERL Papers No. 15 (1990)

Structural Cyclicity in Shuihu Zhuan: From Self to Sworn Brotherhood
SAMUEL H.N. CHEUNG

Zhu Youdun's Plays as a Guide to Fifteenth-Century Performance Practice
W.L. IDEMA

"Felling the Ancient Sweetgum": Antiphonal Folk Epics of the Miao of Southeast Guizhou
MARK BENDER

Reflexivity in the Humor of Xiangsheng
DAVID MOSER

The Slopes of Changban: A Beijing Drumsong in the Liu Style (with translation)
KATE STEVENS

The Poetic Functions and the Oral Transmission of Chinese Proverbs
BRONISLAWA KORDAS

The Role of Avocational Performers in the Preservation of Kunqu
LINDY LI MARK

Hsü Wei as Drama Critic: An Annotated Translation of the Nan-tz'u Hsü-lu, by K.C. Leung (review)
HANS H. FRANKEL

CHINOPERL Papers No. 14 (1986)

Glowing Clouds in an Azure Sky: A Newly Discovered Royal Pageant (trans. Lindy Li Mark and Samuel H.N. Cheung)
WU XIAOLING

Text and Musical Transcription of a Kaipian, "Birthday Wishes from the Eight Immortals"
RULAN CHAO PIAN

"Stuck in Xiangsheng"
PERRY LINK

Kunju Theatre in the Transvestite Novel: Pinhua Baojian
LINDY LI MARK

The Blind Singers of Guangzhou (transcribed by Chen Bing-han, translated by Bell Yung)
WEN LI-RONG

Argosies of Wonder on the Rivers and Lakes: Memories of the Guanju Troupe (trans. and annot. by Lindy Li Mark)
YUNHE ZHANG

The Wall, a Folk Opera in Four Acts (trans. and annot. with an introduction by Chang Li-ching and Victor Mair)
PU SONGLING

CHINOPERL Papers No. 13 (1984–1985)

The Autobiography of the Drum Singer, Jang Tsueyfenq (as told to Liou Fang)
RULAN CHAO PIAN

The Relations between Narrator and Characters in Yuefu Ballads
HANS FRANKEL

Three Decades of Kunqu in Modern China, 1956–1985
JI HU

Research Activities in the Performing Arts in the Republic of China
WANG CH'IU-KUEI

Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts, ed. Bonnie S. McDougall (review)
JAN W. WALLS

CHINOPERL Papers No. 12 (1983)

Tone and Tune in Kunqu
LINDY LI MARK

Musical Elements in the Peking Opera Bah Wang Bye Ji
RULAN CHAO PIAN

"Yan Chasan Thrice Tested": Printed Novel to Oral Tale
SUSAN BLADER

The Chinese Shadow Theatre Today
JO HUMPHREY

A Newly Identified Fragment of the "Translation of Wang Ling"
VICTOR MAIR

"Rotten Big Drum" (concluded)
BELL YUNG

"A Short Life": A Shandong Pattertale
KATE STEVENS

CHINOPERL Papers No. 11 (1982)

Spoken Drama from 1978: Limited Innovation
EDWARD GUNN

Recent Developments in Spoken Drama
SHU-YING TSAO

Li Shimin, Prince of Qin: Dramatic Presentation as Art
AI-LI S. CHIN

The Present State of Influence of Western Theatre on Spoken Drama Production in the People's Republic of China
ELIZABETH J. BERNARD

China's New Musical Play
SHEN CHENG-ZHOU

Peking Opera Today: Some Views of Performers
PAMELA C. WHITE

Popular Narrative in the Pleasure Houses of the South: "Rotten Big Drum"
BELL YUNG

The Empty City Ruse: A Xiangsheng by Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru
KATE STEVENS

Field Report
SUSAN BLADER AND KATE STEVENS

CHINOPERL Papers No. 10 (1981)

Lay Students and the Making of Written Vernacular Narrative: An Inventory of the Tun-huang Manuscripts
VICTOR MAIR

The 15th-Century Shuo-ch'ang tz'u-hua as Examples of Written Formulaic Composition
DAVID ROY

The Dramatic Potential of Xi Shi, Elite versus Popular Elements in Huanshaji and Jiopaji
CYRIL BIRCH

The Yueh Lung Shadow Theatre, an Example of Cultural Preservation
JO HUMPHREY

New Yang'ge, the Case of A Worthy Sister-in-Law
ELLEN JUDD

Cantonese Folksongs: Authentication by Linguistic Criteria
JOHN MCCOY