CHINOPERL Papers No. 29 (2010)
Articles
Jing Shen: Attempts to Adapt the Novel Honglou meng as a Chuanqi Drama
Carolyn Fitzgerald: Mandarin Ducks at the Battlefield: Ouyang Yuqian’s Shifting Reconfigurations of Nora and Mulan
Cathryn Fairlee: Nine Generations of Pi Wu Lazi (Pi the Fifth, the Hot Pepper) in Yangzhou Pinghua
Translations
Fan Pen Chen: “Baldy’s Wedding Night”: A Post-Midnight Marionette Play from Shaanxi
Wilt L. Idema: Four Miao Ballads from Hainan
Resources
Ellen Johnston Laing: Boris Riftin and Chinese Popular Woodblock Prints as Sources on Traditional Chinese Theater
Conference Reports and Performance Reviews
Colin Mackerras: The Imperial Granary Production of Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion)
Li Ruru: 2010 Commemorations of the Theatrical Careers of Cao Yu and Li Yuru
Rüdiger Breuer: Yangzhou Pinghua Storyteller Ma Xiaolong Tours Europe
Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak: A Report on the Conference “Corporeal Nationalisms: Dance and the State in East Asia,” September 10‒12, 2010, University of California, Berkeley
Book Reviews
Hongchu Fu: Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays, edited and translated with an Introduction by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema
Colin Mackerras: The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World, by Li Ruru
Anne McLaren: The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Four Versions, with Related Texts, edited and translated with an Introduction by Wilt L. Idema
CHINOPERL Papers No. 28 (2008-2009)
Articles
Bell Yung: Deconstructing Chinese Opera: Tears on Barren Hill on the Contemporary Stage
Fan Pen Chen: Short Version of River Yang (a.k.a., The Four Saints Return to Heaven): A Marionette Play from Shaanxi
Victor Carvellas: Eavesdropping in the Afterlife: Love and Filial Piety in Chuanqi Drama
Reports and Reviews
Regina Llamas: 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
Fan Pen Chen: Book Review: The Role of the Chou (“Clown”) in Traditional Chinese Drama: Comedy, Criticism and Cosmology on the Chinese Stage, by Ashley Thorpe
In memoriam
Gao Zaihua (1929-2009) Vibeke Børdahl*
Theodore Pian (1919-2009) Bell Yung
* Includes Gao’s autobiography, “How I Studied the Art of Storytelling”
CHINOPERL Papers No. 27 (2007)
Special issue on Storytelling dedicated to Kate Stevens
Letter from the Editors
Wang Jingshou: Kate Stevens, Quirky Friend of China’s Performed Narrative Arts
Susan Blader: Kate Stevens is My Friend
Sun Shujun: To the American Conference for Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
Cai Yuanli and Bao Chengjie: Shi Qingzhao and Her Research on Chinese Performed Narrative Arts
Victor Mair: A Tribute and an Irish Blessing for Kate
Cathryn Fairlee: To My Storytelling Mentor
Venan Hrdličková: The Story of Lao Ma and Its Versions in Beijing Storytelling
Junko Iguchi: The Function of Written Text in Chinese Oral Narrative: The Process of Composition in Laoting dagu
Vibeke Børdahl: A Drum Tale on “Wu Song Fights the Tiger”
Boris Riftin: The “Tale of Wu Song” in Chinese Popular Prints
Stefan Kuzay: The Wopao zhuan and Other Dramas in Shan’ge and Shidiao Songs of Late Qing China
Stephen Jones: Turning a Blind Ear: Bards of Shaanbei
Mark Bender: Ashima and Gamo Anyo: Aspects of Two “Yi” Narrative Poems
Colin Mackerras: Commercialization and Chinese Traditional Theater and Storytelling in the Reform Period
Lindy Li Mark: Review of Kate Stevens, Chinese Storytelling
CHINOPERL Papers No. 26 (2005-2006)
Special issue dedicated to James I, Crump, Jr.
Jeff Keller: 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)
Cyril Birch: Remembering Jim
Milena Deleželová-Veligerová: Jim Crump: A Sinologist who Loved and Taught the Pleasures of Life
Shu-Chu Wei: My Adventure of Working with Jim Crump
Kimberly Besio: The Moheluo Doll Revisited: Yuan Drama in the Late Ming
Wilt L. Idema: 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
Dana Kalvodová: The Story of the Haunted Grave Mound
Ching-Hsi Perng: “With this Door between Us”: Visualizing Pathos in Rain on the Xiaoxiang, “Barely”
Patricia Sieber: Rethinking the History of Early Sanqu Songs
Stephen H. West: Jin Shengtan, Mao Qiling, Commentary and Sex, and the Caizi Mudan ting Notes to Story of the Western Wing
Shiao-Ling Yu, From Revenge to What?: Seven Hundred Years of Transformations of The Orphan of Zhao
Fan Pen Chen: Translations from Wang Bocheng’s Tales of the Tianbao Era (Tianbao yishi): Genre and Eroticism in the Zhugongdiao
Shu-Chu Wei, Qiaoying (The Image in Disguise), by Wu Za
CHINOPERL Papers No. 25 (2003-2004)
Vibeke Børdahl: The Voice of Wang Shaotang in Yangzhou Storytelling
Fan Pen Chen: Forbidden Fruits: Prohibitions on the Performance of Female and Han Ethnic Identities
Lucie Olivová: Chinese and Japanese Storytelling: Selected Topical Bibliography of Věna Hrdličková and Zdeněk Hrdlička, with an Introduction
Shu-chu Wei: Report on the Shanghai Hybrid Production of The Peach Blossom Fan using Kunqu and Peking Opera Forms
In memoriam:
CHINOPERL Papers No. 24 (2002)
Jing Shen: The Concept of Bense in Ming Drama Criticism
Mei Sun: Exploring the Historical Development of Nanxi, Southern Theater
David Branner: “Red Cliffs” in Taiwanese Hanbun
Guan Jiazheng: Zhao Jingshen’s Editing of the Shanghai Special Vernacular Literature Weekly Features (trans. Kathryn Lowry)
Notice of the Website of Chinese Storytelling
CHINOPERL Papers No. 23 (2000–2001)
C. K. Wang: The Collecting and Editing of Taoist Ritual Texts
Sara Davis: Sithat Auk Boht: A Tai Buddhist Tale from Yunnan
Jon Kowallis: Die Merkwürdige Geschichte der Sai Jinhua: Historisch Philologie Untersuchung zur Entstehung und Verbreitung einer Legende aus der Zeit des Boxeraufstands, by Stephan von Minden. Book Review
Yu Li: Conference Report of Beyond Peony Pavilion: Performance, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, April 27–28, 2001.