China Performing Arts Bibliography

 

Addison, Don
1974 "Elements of Style in Performing the Chinese P'i-p'a," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology II/1:118-139.
Birrell, Anne
1993 Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Brace, Rim and Paul Friedlander
1992 "Rock and Roll on the New Long March: Popular Music,Cultural Identity, and Political Opposition in the People's Republic of China," in Rockin' the Boat, ed. by R. Garofalo.
Bryant, Daniel
1994 "Messages of Uncertain Origin: The Textual Tradition of the Nan-T'ang erh-chu tz'u," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cao Zheng, translated by Knobloch
1982 "A Discussion of the History of the Gu Zheng," in Asian Music 14/2:1-16.
Chang, Peter
1991 "Tan Dun's String Quartet Feng-Ya-Song: Some Ideological Issues," in Asian Music 22/2:127-158.
Chao Mei-Pa
1934 The Yellow Bell. Baltimore: Barberry Hill.
Ch'en Shou-jen
1991 Improvisation in a Ritual Context: The Music of Cantonese Opera. Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Chen Fu-yen
1973 "A Hypothesis Concerning the Taiwanese Hsi Ch'ü of the Past," in Asian Music 5/1:40-55.
1976 "Principles of K'un-Ch'ü Singing (Chih An)," in Asian Music 8/2:4-25.
Chen Fu-yen with Tsuge and Song
1976 "Source Readings in Asian Music: East Asia," in Asian Music 8/2:1-3.
Cheng, Scarlet
1994 "'I Heard a Voice from My Memory': Chinese Opera and Film," in Asian Art and Culture 7/2:81-95.
Cheng Shui-Cheng
1979 "Permissions and Prohibitions Concerning the Playing of the Ch'in," in The World of Music 21/1:81-89.
1979 "The Role of the Traditional Musician in China," in The World of Music 21/2:85-95.
1981 "The 'Anti-Music' Theory of the School of Mozi," in The World of Music 23/1:14-19.
Cheng Yingshi
1991 "A Report on Chinese Research into the Dunhuang Music Manuscripts," in Musica Asiatica 6:61-72.
Chou Wen-chung
1969 "East and West, Old and New," in Asian Music 1/1:19-22.
1978 "A Visit to Modern China," in The World of Music 20/2:40-44.
Chuang Pen-li
1974 "Traditional Chinese Music for Birthday Celebrations," in Asian Music 6:7-12.
Conceison, Claire A.
1994 "The Main Melody Campaign in Chinese Spoken Drama," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/2:190-212.
Condit, Jonathan with Wolpert, Marrett, and Picken
1973 "'The Waves of Kokonor': a dance tune of the T'ang dynasty," in Asian Music 5/1:3-9.
Cook, Scott
1995 "Yue Ji: Record of Music," in Asian Music 26/2:1-96.
Craig, Dale
1973 "Whither Chinese Traditional Music?" in The World of Music 15/4:21-40.
Dai Xiaolian
1991 "In Memory of a Great Guqin Player: Zhang Ziqian," in Chime 3:76-87.
de Woskin, Kenneth J.
1985 "Philosophers on Music in Early China," in The World of Music 27/1:33-47.
Delza, Sophia
1973 "The Dance Arts in the People's Republic of China: the contemporary scene," in Asian Music 5/1:28-39.
Diamond, Catherine
1993 "The Masking and Unmasking of the Yu Theatre Ensemble," in Asian Theatre Journal 10/1:101-114.
1995 "Mending the Sky: Fighting Pollution with Bread and Puppets," in Asian Theatre Journal 12/1:119-142.
Dolby, William, translator and annotator
1990 "'Gazing Homewards': one scene from a traditional Chinese play," in Asian Theatre Journal 7/1:76-94.
1991a "Actors' Miseries and the Subversive Stage: A Chinese Tract Against the Theatre," in Asian Theatre Journal
11/1:64-80.
1991b "Some Mysteries and Mootings about the Yuan Variety Play," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/1:81-89.
Du, Wenwei
1995 "'The Chalk Circle' Comes Full Circle: From Yuan Drama Through the Western Stage to Peking Opera," in Asian Theatre Journal 12/2:307-325.
Egan, Ronald
1994 "The Problem of the Repute of Tz'u During the Northern Sung," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Falkenhausen, Lothar von
1993 Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze-Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Fang Kun, translated by Pratt
1980 "A Discussion on Chinese National Musical Traditions," in Asian Music 12/2:1-16.
Ferguson, Daniel
1993 "The Shandong Highwayman: Mechanisms of Inclusion and Resistance and the Predication of Cantonese Identity Through Cantonese Opera," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 25:67-80.
Fong, Grace S.
1994 "Engendering the Lyric: her Image and Voice in Song," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Friedlander, Paul
1991 "China's 'Newer Value' Pop: Rock-and-Roll and Technology on the New Long March," in Asian Music 22/2:67-81.
Gao Zhixi
1992 "Shang and Zhou Period Bronze Musical Instruments from South China," in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 55/2:262-271.
Graves, Robert
1969 "George II and the Chinese Emperor," in Asian Music 1/1:12-14.
Gray, Judith
1979 "Additional Comments Regarding Chinese Orchestras in the United States," in Asian Music 11/1:41-43.
Guy, Nancy
1995 "Peking Opera as 'National Opera' in Taiwan: What's in a Name?" in Asian Theatre Journal 12/1:85-103.
Hamm, Charles
1991 "Music and Radio in the People's Republic of China," in Asian Music 22/2:1-42.
Han Kuo-Huang
1978 "The Chinese Concept of Program Music," in Asian Music 10/1:17-38.
1979 "The Modern Chinese Orchestra," in Asian Music 11/1:1- 40.
1981 "The Beginning of Western Military Band in China," in Han, ed., From West to East: essays on Chinese Music. Taipei: Shipao Publications.
1985 "Titles and Program Notes in Chinese Musical Repertoires," in The World of Music 27/1:68-77.
1988 "J.A.Van Aalst and His Chinese Music," in Asian Music 19/2:127-130.
1989 "Folk Songs of the Han Chinese: characteristics and classifications," in Asian Music 20/2: 107-128.
1990 "New Developments in Minority Music Research," in Chime 2:24-27.
Han Kuo-Huang and Lindy Li Mark
1980 "Evolution and Revolution in Chinese Music," in Musics of Many Cultures, Elizabeth May, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.10-31.
Harbeck, James
1996 "The Quaintness -- and Usefulness -- of the Old Chinese Traditions: 'The Yellow Jacket' and 'Lady Precious Stream'," in Asian Theatre Journal 13/2:238-247.
Ho Lu-ting
1982 "On Chinese Scales and National Modes," in Asian Music 14/1:132-154.
Houyoung, Gao
1989 "On Qupai," in Asian Music 20/2:4-20.
Hu Jun, and Kevin Stuart
1992 "The Guanting Tu (Mongour) Wedding Ceremonies and Songs," in Anthropos 87/1-3:109-132.
Huang Bai
1992 "Haozi, Working Cries Turned into Art: A Discussion of Two Shanghai Work Songs," in Chime 5:42-49.
Huang Xiangpeng
1992 "Ancient Tunes Hidden in Modern Gongche Notation," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:8-13.
Huang Jinpei
1981 "Concerning the Variants of 'Lao Lioban'," in Asian Music 13/2:19-30.
1989 "Xipi and Erhuang of Beijing and Guangdong Operas," in Asian Music 20/2:152-195.
Huangpu Chongqing
1992 "Dixi: Chinese Farmers' Theatre," in The Drama Review 36/2:107-117.
Idema, W. L.
1978 "Some Basic Characteristics of Traditional Chinese Society," in The World of Music 20/2:45-47.
Johnson, Dale
1980 Yuan Music Dramas. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Papers in Chinese Music Studies #40.
Jones, Andrew
1992 Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary
Chinese Popular Music. Cornell East Asia Series, 57. Ithaca: Cornell University.
Jones, Stephen
1989 "Xi'an Ancient Music and its Yousheng," in Music From the Tang Court 5, L. Picken, ed. Cambridge University Press.
1989 "Regional Ensembles of Northern China," in Musica Asiatica 5, R. Wolpert, ed. Cambridge University Press.
1989 "The Golden-Character Scripture: perspectives on Chinese melody," in Asian Music 20/2:21-66.
1992 "Field Notes 1991: Funeral Music in Shanxi," in Chime 5:4-29.
Kang-i Sun Chang
1994 "Liu Shih and Hsü Ts'an: Feminine or Feminist?" in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kaufmann, Walter
1976 Musical References in the Chinese Classics. Detroit Monographs in Musicology #5. Detroit: Information Coordinators, Inc.
Kouwenhoven, Frank
1990a "Mainland China's Avant-Garde Music (1): Out of the Desert," in Chime 2:58-93.
1990b "Music Research in China: Signs of Change," in Chime 1:51-58.
1991a "An Interview with Laurence Picken: Bringing to Life Tunes of Ancient China," in Chime 4:40-65.
1991b "Mainland China's New Music (2): Madly Singing in the Mountains," in Chime 3:42-75.
1992 "Mainland China's New Music (3): The Age of Pluralism," in Chime 5:76-134.
Kouwenhoven, Frank and Antoinet Schimmelpennick
1992 "Chasing a Folk Tune in Southern Jiangsu, China," in European Studies in Ethnomusicology, ed. by M.P. Baumann, A. Simon, and U. Wegner. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag.
Kraus, Richard Curt
1989 Pianos and Politics in China: middle-class ambitions and the struggle over Western music. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kuttner, Fritz A.
1969 "The Development of the Concept of Music in China's Early History," in Asian Music 1/2:12-21.
1974 "The 749-Temperament of Huai Nan Tzu," in Asian Music 6:88-112.
1975 "Prince Chu Tsai-Yü's Life and Work: a re-evaluation of his contribution to equal temperament theory," in Ethnomusicology 19/2:163-206.
1990 The Archaeology of Music in Ancient China. New York: Paragon House.
Lai, Eric
1993 "Toward a Theory of Pitch Organization: the Early Music of Chou Wen-Chung," in Asian Music 25/1-2:177-207.
Lai, T.C. and Robert Mok
1981 Jade Flute: the story of Chinese Music. New York: Schocken Books.
Lam, Joseph S.C.
1995 "The Yin and Yang of Chinese Music Historiography: the Case of Confucian Ceremonial Music," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 27:13-22.
Law, Daniel Ping-leung
1991 "Hong Kong," in New Music in the Orient: Essays on Composition in Asia Since World War II, ed. by Harrison Ryker. Buren: Frits Knuf Publishers.
Lee, Gregory
1995 "The 'East is Red' Goes Pop: Commodification, Hybridity and Nationalism in Chinese Popular Song and its Televisual Performance," in Popular Music 14/1:95-110.
Lee, Joanna Ching-Yun
1992 "All for Freedom: The Rise of Patriotic/Pro-Democratic Popular Music in Hong Kong in Response to the Chinese Student Movement," in Rockin' the Boat, ed. by R. Garofalo.
Leng Sui-jin
1991 "The Shock of Hong Kong and Taiwan Popular Songs," in Popular Music and Society 15/2:23-32.
Levis, John Hazedel
1963 Foundations of Chinese Musical Art, 2nd edition. New York: Paragon.
Li Huanzhi
1991 "People's Republic of China," in New Music in the Orient: Essays on Composition in Asia Since World War II, ed. by Harrison Ryker. Buren: Frits Knuf Publishers.
Li Wei
1992 "The Duality of the Sacred and the Secular in Chinese Buddhist Music," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:81- 90.
Liang Ming-yueh
1974 "A Study of Tiao-i, 'The Meaning of the Mode'," in Asian Music 6:173-188.
1975 "Neotaoist Implications in a Melody for the Chinese Seven-Stringed Zither," in The World of Music 17/2:19- 28.
1980 "The Artistic Symbolism of the Painted Faces in Chinese Opera: an introduction," in The World of Music 22/1:72- 88.
1985 Music of the Billion: an introduction to Chinese musical culture. New York: International Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Heinrichshofen.
1985 "Performance Practice as a Recreative Process in Chinese Zheng Zither Music," in The World of Music 27/1:48-67.
Lide, Feng and Kevin Stuart
1994 "Delighting the Gods in 1990: a Han Shehuo in Qinghai Province, PRC," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/1:35-63.
Lieberman, Fredric
1979 Chinese Music: an annotated bibliography. 2nd edition. New York: Garland Publishing.
1974 "Texted Tunes in the Mei-an Ch'in-P'u," in Asian Music 6:113-146.
1983 A Chinese Zither Tutor: The Mei-an Ch'in-p'u. Seattle:
University of Washington.
Lisha Li
1992 "The Symbolization Process of the Shamanic Drums Used by the Manchus and Other Peoples in North Asia," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:52-80.
Liu, Marjory Bong-ray
1974 "The Influence of Speech Tones on K'unch'ü Vocal Art," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology II/1:62-87.
1985 "Aesthetic Principles in Chinese Music," in The World of Music 27/1:19-32.
Lui Tsun-Yuen
1978 "Introduction to the Traditional Music of China," in The World of Music 20/2:36-39.
Mackerras, Colin
1983 Chinese Theater: from its origins to the present day. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
1981 The Performing Arts in Contemporary China. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
1991 "What About Those at the Margins? A Lacuna in Chinese Theatre Research," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/1:90-96.
1992 "Integration and the Dramas of China's Minorities," in Asian Theatre Journal 9/1:1-37.
1994 "Peking Opera Before the Twentieth Century," in Comparative Drama 28/1:19-42.
Mao Yo Run
1991 "Music under Mao: its Background and Aftermath," in Asian Music 22/2:97-125.
McClain, Ernest G.
1979 "Chinese Cyclic Tunings in Late Antiquity," in Ethnomusicology 23/2:205-224.
Mok, Robert T.
1966 "Heterophony in Chinese Folk Music," in Journal of the International Folk Music Council
1978 "Ancient Musical Instruments from the Number One Han tomb at Ma Wang Tui, Changsa: translation and commentary," in Asian Music 10/1:39-91.
Myers, John E.
1987 "A Critical Study of a Nineteenth Century Handbook for the Chinese Pipa-Lute." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County.
1992 The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press.
Nuttebaum, M., and J. Ferber
1991 "Yueju, Zhejiang Opera With an All-Female Cast," in Chime 4:72-79.
Owen, Stephen
1994 "Meaning the Words: The Genuine as a Value in the Tradition of the Song Lyric," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Peng Xiuwen
1981 "Chuida Music of Sunan," in Asian Music 13/2:31-38.
Perng, Ching-Hsi
1989 "At the Crossroads: Peking Opera in Taiwan Today," in Asian Theatre Journal 6/2:124-144.
Perris, Arnold
1983 "Music as Propaganda: Art at the Command of Doctrine in the People's Republic of China," in Ethnomusicology 27/1:1-28.
1986 "Feeding the Hungry Ghosts: some observations on Buddhist music and Buddhism from both sides of the Taiwan strait," in Ethnomusicology 30/3:428-448.
Pian, Rulan Chao
1979 "Musical Analysis of the Medley Song, 'The Courtesan's Jewel Box'," in Chinoperl Papers 9:9-31.
Picard, François
1991 "Pu'an Zhou: The Musical Avatars of a Buddhist Spell," in Chime 3:32-37.
Picken, Laurence E. R.
1966 "Secular Chinese Songs of the 12th Century," in Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientaiarum Hungaricae Tomus 8:125-172.
1977 "The Shapes of the Shi Jing Song-Texts and Their Musical Implications," in Musica Asiatica 1:85-110.
1981 "The Musical Implications of Chinese Song-Texts with Unequal Lines, and the Significance of Nonsense Syllables, with Special Reference to the Art Songs of the Song Dynasty," in Musica Asiatica 3:53-77.
1984 "Music for a Lion-Dance of the Song Dynasty," in Musica Asiatica 4:200-212.
1987 Music from the Tang Court I-IV. Cambridge University Press.
Pratt, Keith, trans.
1980 "A Discussion on Chinese National Musical Traditions," in Asian Music 12/2:1-16.
Raben, Estelle M.
1992 "Peking Opera: The Persistence of Tradition in the People's Republic of China," in Journal of Popular Culture 25/4:53-61.
Rebollo-Sborgi, Francesca
1994 "The Musicality of Oral performance: The Case of Tianjin Shidiao and the Musical Expression of Urban Identity," in Asian Music 26/1:9-51.
Rees, Helen
1990 "Report on Fieldwork: Music in North Yunnan," in Chime 1:30-35.
1991 "An Annotated Bibliography on Narrative Singing," in Chime 3:88-96.
Riddle, Ronald
1978 "Music Clubs and Ensembles in San Francisco's Chinese Community," in Eight Urban Musical Cultures, Bruno Nettl, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 223-259.
1983 Flying Dragons, Flowing Streams: music in the life of San Francisco's Chinese. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Riley, Josephine et al
1991 "Exorcism Theatre by an Ancient Road: North Sichuan's Tiyangxi," in Chime 3:4-19.
Ruizendaal, Robin
1990 "A Discovery: Iron-stick Puppet Theatre, Fujian," in Chime 2:28-42.
Salter, Dennis
1996 "China's Theatre of Dissent: a Conversation with Mou Sen and Wu Wenguang," in Asian Theatre Journal 13/2:218- 228.
Samson, Valerie
1991 "Music as Protest Strategy: The Example of Tiananmen Square, 1989," in Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 6:35- 64.
Sargent, Stuart
1994 "Contexts of the Song Lyric in Sung Times: Communication Technology, Social Change, Morality," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sau Y. Chan
1991 Improvisation in a Ritual Context: The Music of Cantonese Opera. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
Schimmelpenninck, Antoinet
1990a "Report on Fieldwork: Jiangsu Folk Song," in Chime 1:16- 29.
1990b "Hundred Years of Folk Song Studies in China," in Chime 2:4-23.
1991 "What About the Singers? In Reaction to Zhang and Schaffrath's Article," in Chime 4:34-39.
Schlepp, Wayne
1970 San-ch'ü, its technique and imagery. Wisconsin University Press.
Scott, A.C.
1974 "Reflections on the Aesthetic Background of the Performing Arts of East Asia, " in Asian Music 6:207-216.
Sheng, Bright
1995 "The Love Songs of Qinghai," in Asian Art and Culture 8/3:51-68.
Shih Chung-wen
1976 The Golden Age of Chinese Drama: Yuan Tsa-chü. Princeton University.
Shiliao Zhongguo Y.
1982 "Historical Materials on Chinese Music," in Asian Music 14/1:157-161.
Shuen-fu Lin
1994 "The Formation of a Distinct Generic Identity for Tz'u," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sin-Yan Shen
1991 Chinese Music and Orchestration: a Primer on Principles and Practice. Chicago: Chinese Music Society of North America.
Smith, Barbara
1974 "Chinese Music in Hawaii," in Asian Music 6/2:217-224.
Stevens, Kate
1973 "City of Peking Ballad Troupe: 1973," in Asian Music 5/1:24-27.
Stock, Jonathan P.J.
1991 "A Phoenix Crying at Sunrise: Origins and Social Context of the Erhu," in Chime 3:20-31.
1992 "Constructive Techniques in Music for Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddles," in Chime 5:65-75.
1993a "A Historical Account of the Chinese Two-Stringed
Fiddle Erhu," in Galpin Society Journal 46:83-113.
1993b "Three Erhu Pieces by Abing: an Analysis of Improvisational Processes in Chinese Traditional Instrumental Music," in Asian Music 25/1-2:145-176.
1993d "An Ethnomusicological Perspective on Musical Style, With Reference to Music for Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddles," in Journal of the Royal Musical Association 118/2:276-299.
1994 "Contemporary Recital Solos forthe Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddle Erhu," in British Journal of Ethnomusicology 1:55- 88.
1995 "Reconsidering the Past: Zhou Xuan and the Rehabilitation of Early Twentieth-Century Popular Music," in Asian Music 26/2:119-135.
1996 "Musical Narrative, Ideology, and the Life of Abing," in Ethnomusicology 40/1:49-74.
Stuart, Kevin, and Hu Jun
1993 "That All May Prosper: The Mongour (Tu) Nadun of the Guanting/Sanchuan Region, Qinghai, China," in Anthropos
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Sun, Mei
1996 "Performances of Nanxi," in Asian Theatre Journal 13/2:141-166.
Thrasher, Alan R.
1978 "The Transverse Flute in Traditional Chinese Music," in Asian Music 10/1:92-114.
1980 "The Sociology of Chinese Music: an introduction," in Asian Music 12/2:17-53.
1985 "The Melodic Structure of Jiangnan Sizhu," in Ethnomusicology 29/2:237-263.
1985 "The Role of Music in Chinese Culture," in The World of Music 27/1:3-18.
1988 "Hakka-Chaozhou Instrumental Repertoire: an analytic perspective on traditional creativity," in Asian Music 19/2:1-30.
1989 "Structural Continuity in Chinese Sizhu: the Baban model," in Asian Music 20/2:67-106.
1995 "The Melodic Model as a Structural Device: Chinese Zheng and Japanese Koto Repertories Compared," in Asian Music 26/2:97-118.
Tin-yuke Char
1969 The Hakka Chinese: their origin and folk songs. Translated by C.H. Kwock. San Francisco: Jade Mountain Press.
Tong Kin-woon
1983 "Shang Musical Instruments (Part I)," in Asian Music 15/1:103-184.
1983 "Shang Musical Instruments (Part II)," in Asian Music 15/2:67-143.
Tsai-Ping Liang
1970 Chinese Musical Instruments and Pictures. Taipei: Chinese Classical Music Association.
Tsao Pen-yeh
1976 "P'ing-t'an Music: a preliminary study," in Chinoperl Papers 6:95-106.
1986 "Training of T'an-tz'u Performers: processes of oral transmission in the perpetuation of the Su-Chou Singing- Narrative," in The Oral and the Literate in Music, by Tokumaru Yosihiko and Yamaguti Osamu, eds., pp.221- 230. Tokyo: Academia Music.
1988 The Music of Su-Chou T'an-tz'u: a study of the structural elements of the Chinese Southern Singing-Narrative. Hong Kong: the Chinese University Press.
1989 "Structural Elements in the Music of Chinese Story- Telling," in Asian Music 20/2:129-151.
1992 "Current Research of Taoist Ritual Music in Mainland China and Hong Kong," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:118-125.
Tsun-yuen Lui
1968 "A Short Guide to Ch'in," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology I/2:179-204.
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1968 The Lore of the Chinese Lute; an essay in the ideology of the ch'in. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
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1984 "Buddhist Music in Eastern Asia," in The World of Music 26/3:22-32.
1985 "Chinese Music and Musical Traditions of Eastern Asia," in The World of Music 27/1:78-80.
Wagner, Rudolf G.
1990 The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wei-hua Zhang
1992 "Music in Ming Daily Life as Portrayed in the Narrative Jin Ping Mei," in Asian Music 23/2:105-134.
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1991 "Rhythm and Phrasing in Chinese Tune-Title Lyrics: Old Eight-Beat and its 3-2-3 Meter," in Asian Music 23/1:119-183.
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1965 The Music of China. Hong Kong: Chung Luen.
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1990 "Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Beijing Opera Performance," in The Drama Review 34/1:146-178.
1991 "Xiqu Research and Translation with the Artists in Mind," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/1:97-103.
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1987 "Jiangnan Sizhu Music Clubs in Shanghai: context, concept and identity," in Ethnomusicology 31/2:240-260.
1988 "Chinese Music Translation Survey," in Association for Chinese Music Research Newsletter 2/1:11-12.
1994 'Silk and Bamboo' Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu
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1994 "The Poetry of Li Ch'ing-chao: A Woman Author and Women's Authorship," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Woei Lien Chong
1991 "Rock Star Cui Jian, Young China's Voice of the 1980s," in Chime 4:4-22.
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1981 "The Five String Lute in East Asia," in Musica Asiatica 3:97-106.
1981 "A Ninth Century Score for Five String Lute," in Musica Asiatica 3:107-135.
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1978 "The Printed Collections of Kun-ch'ü Arias and Their Sources," in Chinoperl 8:100-129.
1985 "The Many Roles of Peking Opera in San Francisco in the 1980s," in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 6:173- 188.
1991 "From Reaction to Synthesis: Chinese musicology in the twentieth century," in Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music, Bruno Nettl and Philip J. Bohlman, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 37-55.
1992 "China," in Excursions in World Music, ed. by Bruno Nettl et al.
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1988 "How Music is Transmitted in a Typical Chinese Folk Music Group," in ICTM-UK Chapter Bulletin 21:5-12.
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1991 "Theatre and Society: Reflections on Research Needs in Chinese Theatre Studies," in Asian Theatre Journal 11/1:104-113.
Yan Yin Liu, translated by I. K. Wong
1973 "A Preliminary Study of the 'The Three Variations of Yang Kwan,' an Ancient Song," in Asian Music 5/1:10-23.
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1993 A Genre Analaysis of Popular Music in Taiwan," in Popular Music and Society 17/2:83-112.
Yang Ling
1984 "China Recovers Her Past in Folk Song -- a report," in The World of Music 26/1:44-50.
1985 "Music and Dance Performance with China's Oldest Musical Instruments -- a report from the People's Republic of China," in The World of Music 27/1:91-95.
Yang Mu
1991 "Chinese Music in Australia," in Chime 4:66-71.
1994a "The Use of Chinese Luogujing in Classroom Music," in International Journal of Music Education 23:17-23.
1994b "Academic Ignorance or Political Taboo? Some Issues in China's Study of its Folk Song Culture," in Ethnomusicology 38/2:303-320.
1994c "On the Hua'er Songs of North-western China," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 26:100-116.
Yao Hai-Hsing
1990 "The Relationship Between Percussive Music and the Movement of Actors in Peking Opera," in Asian Music 21/2:39-70.
Yeh Chia-ying
1994 "Wang Kuo-wei's Song Lyrics in the Light of His Own Theories," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yeh, Nora
1981 "The Function of Ornamentation in Nan Guan Music with Reference the Dong Xiao," in Chinese Folk Arts Annual, pp.120-128. Taipei: Chinese Folk Arts Foundation.
1985 Nanguan Music in Taiwan: a little-known classical tradition. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles.
1988 "Nanguan Music Repertoire: categories, notation, and performance practice," in Asian Music 19/2:31-70.
Ying-fen Wang
1992 "The 'Mosaic Structure' of Naguan Songs: an Application of Semiotic Analysis," in Yearbook for Traditional Music 24:24-51.
Yu, Pauline
1994 "Song Lyrics and the Canon: A Look at Anthologies of Tz'u," in Voices of the Song Lyric in China, ed. by P. Yu. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yung, Bell
1976 "Reconstructing a Lost Performance Context: a field work experiment," in Chinoperl Papers 6:120-143.
1983 "Creative Process in Cantonese Opera I: the role of linguistic tones," in Ethnomusicology 27/1:29-48.
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