Back Volumes 1991–2000

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, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, April 27–28, 2001
YU LI

CHINOPERL Papers No. 20–22 (1997–1999)

Dedication to Cyril Birch

Introduction
HUA-YUAN LI MOWRY

Character Design in The Peony Pavilion
WEI HUA

Yuzan Ji: Evolution, Legacy, and Criticism
EDMOND YEE

Feng Menglong and the Late-Ming Articulation of Sentiment
VICTORIA B. CASS

Reconstructing Truth through Fifteen Strings of Cash
HUNG-NIN SAMUEL CHEUNG

Passion and Compassion in Feng Menglong's Literary World
HUA-YUAN LI MOWRY

Murder by Number: On Coincidence and Cosmological Assurance in Crime-case Fiction
MARSTON ANDERSON

Festivals for Lu Xun: the "Lesser Tradition" and National Identity Construction
JON KOWALLIS

Lao She's Philosophy and The Philosophy of Lao Zhang
JEANNETTE FAUROT

Transcendents, Sorcers, and Women Warriors: Huanzhulouzhu's Mountain Sword-warriors of Sichuan
ROBERT L. CHARD

Occidentalism and Alterity: Native Self and Foreign Other in Chen Yingzhen and Shusaku Endo
LUCIEN MILLER

The Subversive Fiction of Yu Hua
MARSHA L. WAGNER

Notes on the Chinese Modernism-Realism Debates
WENDY LARSON

Chinese Courtship: The Huajian Ji in English Translation
K. C. LEUNG

Translation of a Sanqu Lyric from Ma Zhiyuan's Dongli Yuefu
LINDA WANG

Simplicity, Otherness, and Poetic Language
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU

Peter Sellars' Avant-Garde Production of Peony Pavilion
CATHERINE SWATEK

In Appreciation of Cyril Birch; Scholar and Teacher; The Writings of Cyril Birch
CYRIL BIRCH

CHINOPERL Papers No. 19 (1996)

Lao She and Chinese Folk Literature
PETER LI

Keys to Performance in Kunming Storytelling
MARK BENDER

The Mismatch; Ouyang Yuqian and Theater Report in Nantong, 1919–1922
QIN SHAO

Longing for Worldly Pleasures: An Example of the Sacred vs. the Profane in Contemporary Chinese Drama
MICHELLE DIBELLO

Chinese Traditional Theater: A Revival in the 1990s?
COLIN MACKERRAS

Pop Music Commands a Huge Audience Today: An Interview with the Young Composer Li Lifu (trans. Peter Mimic)
PETER MIMIC

Ritual and Scripture in Chinese Popular Religion: Five Studies, ed. David Johnson (review)
KATHERINE CARLITZ

International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China, Copenhagen, August 29–31, 1996. Conference Report
LINDY LI MARK

CHINOPERL Papers No. 18 (1995)

Obituary: Wu Xiaoling

Narrative Voices in Yangzhou Storytelling
VIBEKE BØRDAHL

Xuetou: Comic Elements as Social Commentary in the Suzhou Pinghua Storytelling
WENWEI DU

The Oral Transmission of a Late-Nineteenth Century Harngjou Lyric
RICHARD VAN NESS SIMMONS

Enacting Loyalty: History and Theatricality in The Peach Orchard Pledge
KIMBERLY BESIO

From Performance to Text: Combat Format on Stage and Combat Descriptions in Fiction
YAO YAO

Food, Political Satire, Two Themes in Sichuan Mulian Ritual Drama: the 1993 Symposium Performance
LINDY LI MARK

Studies in Chinese Ritual and Ritual Theater: A Bibliographical Report
CH'IU-KUEI WANG

A Chinese-English Dictionary of Enigmatic Folk Similes (Xiehouyu), by John Rosenow (review)
FAN PEN CHEN

South of the Clouds: Tales from Yunnan, ed. Lucien Miller (review)
GRACE WIERSMA

CHINOPERL Papers No. 17 (1994)

Dedication to Harold Shadick

Oral Performing Literature in Traditional Chinese Fiction: Non-realistic Usages in the Jin Ping Mei Cihua and Their Influence
DAVID ROLSTON

CHINOPERL Papers No. 16 (1992–1993)

Dedication to Rulan C. Pian

Letter from the Editors

The Mum Sparrow: Non-vegetarian Xiangsheng in Action
PERRY LINK

Wen Bai Yi Du, Literary and Colloquial Forms in Yangzhou Storytelling
VIBEKE BØRDAHL

Cantonese Opera in a Colonial Cultural Context
GREGORY GULDIN

The Many Faces of Yang Guifei in Chinese Drama
FAN PEN CHEN

Eating the Mosquito: Transmission of a Chinese Children's Folksong
DANA BOURGERIE

Dreams in Tang Xianzu's Plays
WEI HUA

From Toisan to New York: Muk'yu Songs in Folk Tradition
SU DE SAN ZHENG

Report on the International Conference on Chinese Southern Opera (Nanxi) and Mulian Opera
DAVID JOHNSON

1991: no publication