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Bibliography of Chiese Theater/Music

------------------------------- Bibliography Elizabeth Halson: Peking Opera. A Short Guide. HK:/London/NY 1966. .C. Scott(Tr.): Traditional Chinese Plays Translated, .S. Allen: Chinese Theatres Handbook. Tientsin nd(1920s). 56pp. Illust. ack Chen: The Chinese Theatre. London nd[ca. 1948]. Yu Shiao-Ling. 1997. Chinese Drama Since the Cultural Revolution: An Anthology (translated from the Chinese) . Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Wang Ch'iu Kuei. 1995. "Studies in Chinese Ritual and Ritual Theater: a Bibliographical Report." CHINOPERL Papers 18:115-130. Qin Shao. 1996. "The Mismatch: Ouyang Yuqian and Theater Reform in Nantong 1919-1922. CH/NOPERL Papers 19:39-65. Yang Mu. 1993. Chinese Musical Instruments: An Introduction ? Canberra: Australian National University. Reviewed by: J. Lawrence Witzleben. 1996. China Review International 3(2)'379-81. Yung, Bell and Joseph S. C. Lam, eds. 1994. Themes and Variations: Writing on Music in Honor of Rutan Chao Pian. Cambridge: Harvard University; Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong. Reviewed by: Blum, Stephen. 1995. ICTM Yearbook for Traditional Music 27:177-78. Fujie, Linda. 1995. The World of Music 37(3):89-92. Zha Jianying. 1995. China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture. New York: The New Press. Reviewed by: Mccormick, Barrett. 1996. China Journal 35:182-83. Micic, Peter. 1996. ACMR Reports 9(2):28-29. Lei, Daphne Pi-Wei. 1996. "Wang Zhaojun on the Border: Gender and Intercultural Conflicts in Premodem Chinese Drama." Asian Theatre Journal 13(2):229-37. Liu Guiteng. 1996. "Shamanism and the Musical Instruments Used in the Manchurian Shamanistic Sacrificial Rituals (tiaoshen): An Ethnomusicological Examination of Shengu (Shamanic Drum) and Yaoling (Waistbell)." ACMR Reports 9(2):1-20. Sun Mei. 1994. "Xiqu's Problems in Contemporary China." Journal of Contemporary China 6:74-83. Du Wenwei. 1995. 'Xuetou: Comic Elements as Social Commentary in Suzhou Pinghua Storytelling." CHINOPERL Papers 18:3344. Hung Chang-tai. 1996. "The Politics of Songs: Myths and Symbols in the Chinese Communist War Music." Modern Asian Studies 30(4):901-30. Wen Mu and Lan Liu. 1964. 'Huju jian jie" (A brief introduction to huju). Shanghai shi renmin hujutuan, ed., Huju qudiao, rev. ed., 1-7. Shanghai: Shanghai wenhua chubanshe. Shi Meng and Di Zi, eds. 1986. "Shi Chunxuan yishi ji' (A record of the artistic life of Shi Chunxuan). Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 56-64. Wang Yaqin, narr. 1986. "Huiyi Wang Xiaoxin" (Remembering Wang Xiaoxin), transcr. and ed. Zhang Jianjing. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 32-35. Du Yaxiong. 1993. Zhongguo ge shaoshu minzu minjian yinyue gaishu (A survey of the folk music of each of China's minority nationalities) . 3 vols. Beijin~ Renmin yinyue chubanshe. Reviewed by: Harris, Rachel. 1996. CHIME 9:14142. Xia Fulin, narr. 1986. "Xue chang tanhuang wushi chun" (Fifty years learning to sing tanhuang), transcr. and ed. Fang Yu. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 69 -79. Xiao Wenbin, narr. 1986. "Wo de zizhuan' (My autobiography) transcr. and ed. Zhang Jianqing, Wang Chuanjiang and Li Zhiyan. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 3,547. Xu Ke, ed. 1917. Qing bai lei chao (Notes on many things of the Qing period), vol. 36. Shanghai: Shangwu yinshuguan. Lingyun, narr. 1986. "Shanghai de jiushi xiyuan-'chayuan"' (Shanghai's old-form theaters--'tea gardens') transcr. Guan Ji'an and ed. Lu Eting. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 1: 83-87. Yang Meimei, narr. 1986. "Yishi man yi," (Many recollections of an artistic life), transcr. and ed. Zhou Jingnan and Yu Xiufen. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 82-94. Yue Zheng. 1991. Jindai Shanghairen shehui xintai (1860-1910) (The social mentality of recent Shanghainese, 1860-1910) . Shanghai: Shanghai renmin chubanshe. Zhang Caixia, narr. 1986. "Wo yu xibeng" (Xibang and me), transcr. and ed. Zhu Liaozu. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 100-3. Zhao Yunwu. 1986. "Sishi nian huju shengya manyi" (Recollections of forty years of life in huju). Shanghai xLqu shiliao huicui 1: 52-56. Wen Mu and Yu Shuren. 1986. "Cong huaguxi dao bendi tanhuan~ huju zaoqi lishi gailun" (From huaguxi to bendi tanhuang: on the early history of huju). Shanghai xiqu ziliao huicui 2: 2-8. Bo Senhai, ed. 1987. Huaiju yinyue fi qi changqiang liupai Crhe music of huaiju opera and its vocal schools). Shanghai: Shanghai yinyue chubanshe. Chen Yibing. 1989. "Xiju de xingcheng he fazhan' (The formation and development of xiju [Wuxi] opera). Jin Yi et al., eds., Xiju chuantong jumu kao lae, 9-20. Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi chubanshe. Da Fengrno and Gao Zhenmei. 1983. "Tanhuang." Zhang Geng et al., eds., Zhongguo dabaikequanshu: xiqu, quyi, 361. Beijing: Zhongguo dabaikequanshu chubanshe. Ding Guobin. 1986. 'Huju jiefang qian ge fazhan jieduan de changpian jian jie' (A brief introduction to each stage of development in the field of huju recordings before Liberation). Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 15-19. Ding Huiqin, narr. 1986. "Huiyi baqin Ding Shaolan' (Remembering my father, Ding Shaolan), transcr. and ed. Ruan Jun, Zhu Liaozu, and Feng Chunni. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 29-31? Ding Wan'e, narr. 1986. '~Nan-Lan she, ertong shenqu ji qi ta' Crhe Wan-Lan troupe, children's shenju, and other matters), transcr. and ed. Zhou Jingnan and Yu Xiufen. Shanghai xiqu shiliao huicui 2: 94-98. Dong Yuan. 1983. "Huju." Zhang Geng et al., eds., Zhongguo dabaikequanshu: xiqu, quyi, 126-27. Beijin~ Zhongguo dabaikequanshu chubanshe. Schimmelpenninck, Antoinet.1990. "Hundred Years of Folk Song Studies in China." Chime 2:4-27 ? 1995. "Chinese Folk Singers in Jiangsu Province (1)." Chime 8: 32-58. Stock, Jonathan P. J. 1996. Musical Creativity in Twentieth-Century China: Abing, His Music, and Its Changing Meanings. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. Mackerras, Colin P. 1975. The Chinese Theatre in Modern Times: From 1840 to the Present Day. London: Thames and Hudson. Blacking, John. 1995? "The Study of Musical Change." Reginald Byron, ed. Music, Culture, and Experience: Selected Papers of John Blacking, 148-73. Chicago: Chicago University Press. [Originally published as "Some Problems of Theory and Method in the Study of Musical Change." Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council 9 (1977): 1-26.] Witzleben, J. Lawrence. 1995. "Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. Bordahl, Vibeke. 1995. "Narrative Voices in Yangzhou Storytelling." CHINOPERL Papers 18:1-32. ---. 1996. The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 73. Richmond UK: Curzon Press. Brandl, Rudolf. 1991. Nuo-Geistermasken aus Anhui (China) (Nuo spirit masks from Anhui) . Ausstellung des musikwissenschaftlichen und Ostasiastischen Seminars der Universitat Gottingen. Gottingeru Edition Re. Reviewed by: Riley, Jo. 1996. CHIME 9:13840. Dibello, Michelle. 1996. "Longing for Worldly Pleasures: An Example of the Sacred vs. the Profane in Contemporary Chinese Drama." CHINOPERL Papers 19:67-78. Gunzel, Marcus. 1994. Die Morgen~ und Abend-liturgie der Chinesischen Buddhisten. Gottingen: Seminar fur lndologie u. Buddhismusikunde. Harbeck, James. 1996. "The Quaintness-and Usefulness--of the Old Chinese Traditions: The Yellow Jacket and Lady Precious Stream." Asian Theatre Journal 13(2):23847. Helffer, Mireille. 1995. Mchod-rol: Les instruments de la musique tibetaine (with 1 compact disc). Paris: CNRS editions: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme de Paris. Reviewed by: Ducor, Jerome. 1995. Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles 8: 235-37. Egert, Nina. 1995-96. As/an Mus/c 27(1):157-62. Schrempf, Mona. 1996. Tibet Journal 21(3):73-75. --. 1995. "Quand le terrian est un monastere tibetaine." Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles 8:69-84. S2 ACMR Reports, Spring 1997 Johnson, Geir. 1995-96. "En rituel magiker: Vesten i sten er tema i den kinesiske komponist Tan Duns musik" (Ritual magic: Western and Eastern themes in the music of the Chinese composer Tan Dun). Dansk musik tidsskri~ 70(8):264-68. Stephen. 1995. Folk Music of China: Living Instrumental Traditions. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by: Kouwenhoven, Frank. 1996. CHIME 9:14346. Stock, Jonathan P.J., 1996. Music and Letters 77(3):483-84. -. 1996. "Source and Strearm Early Music and Living Traditions in China." Early Music 24(3):374-88. Kuo Chang-yang. 1996. Chinese Art Song: A Melodic Analysis. 2nd ed. Taipei: Yueh-Yuhn. Kuzay, Stefan. 1995. Das Nuo yon Guichi: Eine Untersuchung zu religiosen Maskenspielen im sudlichen Anhui. FrankfuR am Main; New York: Peter Lang. Lain, Joseph S.C. 1995. "Musical Relics and Cultural Expressions: State Sacrificial Songs from the Southern Song Court." Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies 25:1-27. ---. 1995. "Transnational Understanding of Historical Music: State Sacrificial Music from the Southern Song, China (AD 1127-1279)." The World of Music 38(2):69-83. Lau, Frederick. 1995-96. "Individuality and Political Discourse in Solo Dizi Compositions." As/an Music 27(1):133-52. Maceda, Jose. 1995. "A Logic in Court Music of the Tang Dynasty." Acta MusicoIogia 67(2):10941. Mackerras, Colin. 1996. "Chinese Traditional Theatre: A Revival in the 1900's?" CHINOPERL Papers 19:79-94. Mark, Lindy Li. 1995. "Food, Political Satire: Two Themes in Sichuan Mulian Ritual Drama." CHINOPERL Papers 18:95-114. Micic, Peter. 1996. "Pop Music Co~ds a Huge Audience Today: An Interview with ~e Young Composer Li Lifu." CHINOPERL Papers 19:95-104. Pegg, Carole. 1995. "Ritual, Religion and Magic in West Mongolian (Oirad) Heroic Epic Performance." British Journal of EthnomusicoIogy 4:77-100. Reed, Thomas R. 1996. "Two Birds from China." Music Notation News 6(4):22- 28. Rees, Helen. 1995-96. "The Many Musics of a Chinese County Town: A CaseStudy of Co-Existence in Lijiang, Yunnan Province." Asian Music 27(1):63-102. Salter, Denis. 1996. "China's Theatre of Dissent: . A Conversation with Mou Sen and Wu Wenguang." Asian Theatre Journal 13(2):218-28. Schimmelpenninck, Antoinet. 1995. "Recherches dans la province du Jiangsu (Chine) ." Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnetles 8:33-57. Schimmelpenninck, Antoinet and Frank Kouwenhoven. 1995. "Female Folk Singers in Jiangsu, China." In Ethnomusicology in the Netherlands: Present Situation and Traces of the Past, ed. Wim van Zanten and Marjolijn J. van Roon, 261-74. Oideion: The Performing Arts Worldwide, voI. 2. Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, Leiden University. Steen, Andreas. 1996. Der Lange Marsch des Rock & Roll: Pop- und Rockmusik in der Volksrepubtik China. Hamburg, Munster: LIT-Verlag. Stock, Jonathan P.J. 1996. Musical Creativity in Twentieth-Century China: Abing, His Music, and Its Changing Meanings. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. ----. 1996. World Sound Matters: An Anthology of Music from Around the World, 3 vols. London: Schott Educational (includes four units on Chinese music). --. 1996. "Performances of Nanxi." As/an Theatre Journal 13(2):141-66. Szlagowska, Danuta. 1996 ? Kultura muzyczna antyku (Musical culture of antiquity). Skrypty i podreczniki, No. 26. Gdansk: Akademia Muzyczna ira. Stanislawa Moniuszki (with chapter on Chinese musical culture and intellectual history). Tan Sooi Beng. 1994. "From Syncretism to the Development of Parallel Cultures: Chinese-Mahy Cultural Interaction in Malaysia." In Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions, ed. Margaret J. Kartomi and Stephen Blurn, 220-32. Australia: Gordon and Breach. Trebinjac, Sabine. 1995. "Fernme, seule et venue d'ailleurs: trois atouts d'une ethnomusicologue au Turkestan chinois." Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles 8:59-68. Vanness Simmons, Richard. 1995. "The Oral Transmission of a Late NineteenthCentury Harngjou Lyric.' CHINOPERL Papers 18:45-60. Witzleben, J. Lawrence. 1995. 'Silk and Bamboo' Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. Kent: Kent State University Press. Reviewed by: Jones, Stephen- 1995 ? British Journal of Ethnomusicology 4:176-78. Kouwenhover~ Frank. 1996. CH/ME 9:14346. Stock, Jonathan P.J., 1996 ? Music and Letters 77(2):301-302. Liu, Terry. 1996. China Review International 3(2)'373-75. Wong, Isabel K.F. 1997. "The Music of China." In Excursions in World Music, ed. Bruno Nettl et al., 69-103. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Claus Peter. 1995. "Oral Epic Poetry in the Central Himalayas (Garhwal and Kumaon)." European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 9:1-7. 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Ph.D. diss., Departement d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Nanterre, Paris (France). Bemoviz, Nimrod. 1996. "The Chinese Diao: Modal Practice in FifteenthCentury Qing Music." MA. thesis, University of Pittsburgh CLI.S.). Bu Bing. 1996. "Social Dimensions of Popular Songs in the People's Republic of China During the 1980s." M.A. thesis, University of Hawai'i (U.S.). Chan, Margaret W.W. 1996. "The 'Yellow River Piano Concerto' as a Site for Negotiating Cultural Spaces for a Diasporic Community in Toronto." M.A. thesis, York University (Canada). Chang, Peter M. 1995. "Chou Wen-Chung and His Music: A Musical and Biographical Profile of Cultural Synthesis." Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.). Chen Shing-Lih. 1996. "The 'Yellow River Piano Concerto': Politics, Culture, and Style." D.M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia (Canada). Hallis, Xiang Chen. 1995. "Chinese Art Song from 1912 to 1949." D.M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin (U.S.). LaFluer, Robert Andre. 1996. "A Rhetoric of Remonstrance: History, Commentary, and Historical Imagination in Sima Guang's 'Zizhi Tongjian'." Ph.D. diss., History, University of Chicago (U.S.). Lee Chih-Chun. 1995. "Fan Jen: A Symphonic Poem on Taiwanese Folk Songs." M.A. thesis, Music, Ohio University (U.S.). Lee Shek-Kam. 1995. "Reading Between the Lines: The Rhythmic Information in Qin Handbooks." M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh (U.S.). Steen, Andreas. 1995. "Populare Musik in der VR China: Zur Entstehung und Botschaft der Rockmusik in Beijing." M.A. thesis, Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany). Vath, Andreas. 1995. "Rockmusik in Beijing: Aspekte von Subkultur und Wertewandel in der urbanen Jugendszene Chinas." M.A. thesis, Munchen University (Germany). Wrochem, Miriam von. 1996. "Die zeitgenossische Musik der chinesischen Avantgarde." M.A. thesis, Sinology, Friedrich-Wilhems-University, Bonn (Germany). Wu Ben. 1995. "Representation of Tibetan Music East and West: The State of the Field." M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh (U.S.). Zhang Boyu. 1995. "Mathematical Rhythmic Structure of Chinese Percussion Music: An Analytical Study of the Shifan Luogu Collection." Licentiate thesis, Institute of Musicology, Turku University (Finland). Lai, Eric. 1996. "Concert Reporiz Festival of Sino-American Music and Culture." 9(2):21-27. Micic, Peter. 1996. "A Selected Annotated Discography of Pop and Rock Albums in the People's Republic of China (1989-1995)." 9(2):37-52. Myers, John E. 1996. "Conference Report: CHIME Bridges World Music and Ethnomusicology: A Report from Rotterdarn." ACMR Reports 9(1):4849. Yeh Yueh-Yu. 1995. "A National Score: Popular Musk and Taiwanese Cinema." Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California. Theatre Insight, a journal of theatre and performance produced by the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Theatre and Dance Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. By Susan Brownwell. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. 393 pp. About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art. By Dore Ashton. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International, 1997. 208 pp. Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. Editor Karen Brazell. New York: Columbia University Press. 464 pp. 200 illus.