Index

Abduction from the Seraglio, The, 119

“Abysmal Pool, The” 97

Academia Sinica, Formosa, 35

Aesop, 14

alchemy, 189

All Men Are Brothers, 117, 119, 137-8, 168

Angel of the Annunciation, 10

“Annoyed,” 88

apotheosis, 180

Aristophanes, 61, 65, 100, 143

Arnold, Matthew, 228

aubade, 59

Avery Brundage Collection, 12, 29, 32, 37

baroque opera, 180

Battle of Chang-Pan P’o, The, 151

Battle of the Red Cliff, 150

bear, in art, 25

Beating the Drum and Cursing Ts’ao Ts-ao, 161-4

Beowulf, 31

“Blaming Sons,” 75

“Boon Companion,” 195-9

“Bravo of Chao, The,” 78-9

Britomart, 152

bronzes, 36

Buddhism, 10, 50, 69, 98, 112, 118-9, 182-3

buffalo, in art, 16

Butler, Samuel, 9

Butterfly Dream, The (Peking opera), 154, 157-60, 219

Butterfly Dream, The (play by Kuan Han-ch’ing), 154-5

Cahill, James, 34, 38

Calderon de la Barca, 157

camel, in art, 22

carp, in art, 29

cat, in art, 27

celadon, 32, 34

Celestina, 117

Cellini, Benvenuto, 79

“Censor in Purgatory, The,” 203-8

Cervantes, Miguel de, 185

Chalk Circle, The, 131-2

Ch’an Buddhism, 9, 24, 68, 79, 188

Chang (hero of The West Chamber), 120-3

Chang Yang-hao, 108

characterization, 149

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 9, 75

Chekov, Anton Pavlovich, 221

Chiang Ts’an, 16-7

Ch’ien Hsuan, 25, 28

chimeras, 23

Chin Nung, 27

Chinese Wit and Humor, 4, 69

Chin P’ing Mei, see Lotus

Ch’i Shuang Hui, see Madame Cassia

Chuang Tzu, 158

Chu-ko Liang, 149-151

Chu Ta, 38

Ch’ü Yüan, 12, 70-2, 80

clown, 5

Cohn, William, 19

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 80

comedy, 9, 87, 110

commedia dell’ arte, 185

Communist play-revision, 160

Confucian gentleman, the, 9, 41, 99, 112, 121, 162, 181-2, 219, 224, 226

Confucius, 15, 31, 44-6, 51, 162, 165, 182

cow, in art, 19

Cowper, William, 76

crab, in art, 29

crane, in art, 36

creation myths, 11

cruelty in humor, 15

Crump, James I, 139

dance, 44

d’Argencé, René-Yvon Lefebvre, 12, 18, 37

Dead Souls, 221

“Death by Laughing,” 208-9

Disney, Walt, 33

dogs, in art, 18

Don Quixote, 185

Donald Duck, 33

dragons, 3, 30-2, 97

Dream of the West Chamber, The, 168

“Drinking Alone under Moonlight,” 78

“Drunk, I Fell from Horseback, 85

drunkenness, 99-102

East-West relations, 222

“Eating Bamboo Shoots,” 105

“Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup,” 93-5

elephants, in art, 22

Elizabethan stage, 110

Elizabethans, the, 4

Encountering Sorrow, 12, 70-2

“Escorting the Candidates to the Examination Hall,” 101

“establishment, the,” 220

Evil Angel, 177

exempla, 14

Fan An-jun, 29

fantastic, the, 12

farce, 5

fine arts, 8

fish, in art, 29

“Fisherman,” 13

Fisherman Kills a Family, A, see The Fisherman’s Revenge

Fisherman’s Revenge, The, 138, 144-9

“Fishing on a Snowy Day,” 13

folk art, 7

folk humor, 59

folk novel, 137-8

fox spirits, 173, 188, 196

Freer Collection, 36

frivolity, 217

frog, in art, 25

Gargantua, 181

Gilbert, W. S., 182

Giles, Herbert, 9, 169, 188, 212

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, 221

“Going to the Mountain with a Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen,” 107

Gray, Basil, 34

grotesque, the, 189

Gustaf Adolf VI, King of Sweden, 36

Hajek, Lubor, 21, 33, 36

Han tiles, 40

Hanuman, 183

hell, humor in, 201-8

hilariocomedia, 178

hilarity, 4

horse, in art, 19-21

Hsia, C.T., 113

Hsiao En (hero of The Fisherman’s Revenge), 145-8

Hsin, Ch’i-chi, 108

Hsiung, S. I., 113

Hsi-yu chi, see Monkey

Hui lan chi, see The Chalk Circle

Hui Ming, 119

Hui Tsung, Emperor, 39

humor, 3, 4, 47, 69-70, 163, 227

Hung Niang, 124-7

Inconstancy of Madame Chang, The, 157, 219-20

Indiana University Museum, 19

insects, in art, 29

irony, 49, 52, 66

jade, 12, 17

Jade Mirror-Stand, The, 154-7

Japan, 24, 167

Japanese poetry, 48

Journey to the West, The, see Monkey

Joyce, James, 100

Juliet (in Romeo and Juliet), 125

Ju-lin wai-shih, see The Scholars

Kao, George, 4, 21, 69

Koyata Iwasaki, Baron, 26

Kuan Han-ch’ing, 153-7

Kuan-yin, 176-8

La Fontaine, Jean de, 15

landscape painting, 10

Lao Tzu, 100, 177

lapis lazuli, 13

laughter, 4, 48

“Lazy Man’s Song,” 103

Lee, Sherman E., 18

Liang K’ai, 40

Liao-shai-chih-i, see Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Li Ch’ing-chao, 108

Li Ho, 69, 108

Li K’uei Carries Thorns, 138-144

Lin Yutang, 69

lion, in art, 25

“Lion Demon in the Kingdom of Cock-Crow, The,” 179-80

Li Po, 9, 40, 69, 76-80, 153

Li Sao, see Encountering Sorrow

Little Orphan of the Family of Chao, The, 132

Liu Chun, 23

Lo P’ing, 40

Lord Kuan Goes to the Feast, 157

Lotus, 117, 168

Lucky Pearly The, see The Fisherman’s Revenge

Lu Yu, 108

Ludus Coventriae, see The Play of Coventry

“Lychee Tree, The,72

Madame Cassia, 128-137

“Madly Singing in the Mountains,” 106

magic, 173, 190, 199-200

magpie, in art, 38

Mahabharata, The, 43

Manjuari, 180

Marriage of Figaro, The, 122

“Marriage of the Virgin Goddess, The,” 210-2

masks, 172

Mating at Heaven’s Gate, The, 11

Ma Yüan, 21

Mei Lan-fang, 145

melancholy, 68

melodrama, 218

Men of the Marshes, The, see All Men Are Brothers

Mercutio, 116

Middle Ages, 188, 201

Mi Heng, 161-2

“Military Plays,” 145

Milton, John, 9, 89, 150, 201

Minerva, 35

Minnesingers, 59

mirth, 87

Misanthrope, Le, 163

Miser, The, 222

Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), 117

Monkey, 6, 9, 24, 50, 52, 88, 169-87

monkey, in art, 24

Monkey King, The, 169

“Monkeys at Play in a Loquat Tree,” 24

morality, 217-20

“Mother Monkey and a Child,” 24

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 117

Mu Ch’i, 24, 37

music, 43, 108

mynah, in art, 38

narration, 167

Ni Tsan, 13

Odyssey, The, 170, 178

“Old Apothecary, The,” 108

“On His Baldness,” 103

“On Rejecting a Gift of a Satin Brocade,” 81-2

opera bouffe, 133

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 126

owl, in art, 35

Oxherd legend, 11

painting, 8, 10, 11

Pallas Athena, 178

Panchatantra, The, 171

parody, 133

parrot, in art, 39

Pearly Screen Castle, 152

Peer Cynt, 63

“Peking opera,” 115, 128, 144, 154, 158

phoenix, in art, 32

picaresque novel, 169, 185

pigs, in art, 18

Pigsy, 24, 184-7

Pilgrim’s Progress, 181

Play of Coventry, The, 201

Po Chü-i, 9, 69, 74, 80, 98-107, 183

Poe, Edgar Allan, 80, 189

“Poem on Seeing the Sword-Pantomime Dance,” 92

“Poem Sent to Tu Tao,” 89

Polonius, 152

“Portrait of the Artist’s Friend, I’an,” 40

praying mantis, in art, 29

problem play, 163

Psalms, The, 44, 66

punning, 100

puppets in India, 166

puppets in Japan, 167

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergevich, 77

P’u Sung-ling, 169, 188-9

quietism, 68, 73

rabbit, in art, 28

Rama, 184

Ramayana, The, 183-4

rat, in art, 28

Ravana, 183

“Reading the Book of Strange Places and Seas,” 75

Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 105

Rescued by a Coquette, 154-6

“Return, The,” 73-4

Reynard the Fox, 173

rhinoceros, in art, 29

Rigveda, The, 43

Riverside Pavilion, The, 155

“River That Leads to Heaven, The,” 180-1, 186-7

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The, 168

Romance of the West Chamber, The, 114, 167

Romeo and Juliet, 116

Sancho Panza, 186

Satan, 201

satire, 4, 47, 163, 217-27

“Saving Life,” 201-3

Schoenlight Collection, 26

Scholars, The, 169, 210, 216-27

Scott, A. C., 159-60

Shakespeare, William, 23, 100, 126

Shaw, Bernard, 159

sheep, in art, 23

Shih Ching, see Songs, The Book of Shih K’o, 26

Shih Shun Lui, 228

shrike, in art, 37

Shui-hu Chuan, see All Men Are Brothers

Sita, 183

“Smelling Essays,” 212-6

smile, 4

Snow in Midsummer, 131-2, 153-4

“Song of the Peach-Bamboo Sticks,” 96

Songs, The Book of, 7, 9, 28, 42-67, 162, 165; individual songs: no. 1, 52-3; no. 2, 53-4; no. 20, 54-5; no. 21, 55; no. 39, 55-6; no. 43, 56; no. 52, 63; no. 72, 56; no. 76, 57; no. 87, 58; no. 95, 58-9; no. 96, 59-60; no. 100, 60; no. 101, 60-1; no. 125, 62; no. 129, 62; no. 135, 63; no. 136, 63-4; no. 138, 56; no. 141, 49; no. 184, 68; no. 190, 64; no. 217, 65; no. 225, 66-7

Sorrows of Han, The, 128

Southern School, 73

Spenser, Edmund, 31

“Spirit of the Hills, The,” 200

squirrel, in art, 28

Story of Ying-ying, The, 113-4

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, 9, 169, 188-216

supernaturalism, 166

Su Tung-p’o, 68, 74, 76

T’ao Ch’ien, 68, 70, 72-77, 145

Taoism, 13, 23, 41, 51, 73, 79, 93, 103, 112, 165, 182-3, 185, 188, 199, 224

T’ao Yuan-ming, see T’ao Ch’ien

“Theft of a Peach, The,” 190-5

Theiner, George, 169

Thomas, Dylan, 106

“Three Sennin Dancing Around a Toad,” 24

“Through Snowy Mountains at Dawn,” 21

tiger, in art, 25

“To a Monk on the Tai-Pei Mountain,” 79

“To Prefect Chang,” 91

toad, in art, 23-4

tragedy, 9

tragicomedy, 111

transformation, 172

Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The, 171

Tripitaka, 179

Ts’ao Chih, 228

Ts’ao Ts’ao, 149-52

tsun, 29

Tu Fu, 9, 12, 69, 74, 80-99, 153

Tung chih-yuan, 114

turtle image, 186-7

Tu Shao-ching, 226-7

type figures in drama, 129

understatement, 48, 65

verbal agility, 100

Visser, H. F. W., 19, 25, 32-4

Waley, Arthur, 169, 176, 177

Wang I, 70, 72

Wang Ming, 225

Wang Shih-fu,” 111-129

“Wangsun, The,” 72

Wang Yen shou, 70, 72

Watson, Burton, 70

Way of Heaven, The, 148

Wei Chuang, 108

West Chamber, The, 9, 52, 111, 210, 129

White Snake, The, 160

Wife-Snatcher, The, 157

Winnie the Pooh, 181

wish-fulfillment, 132

wit, 4, 47, 99-100, 164

Wordsworth, William, 52

Wu Chen, 13

Wu Ch’eng-en, 169, 178, 183-4, 187

Wu Ching-tzu, 169, 216-27

yang and yin, 10

Yang, Gladys, 154

Yang, Hsien-yi, 154

“Yang P’u Moving His Family,” 40

Yao Hsin-nung, 128, 159

Yeats, William Butler, 106

Yellow Crane Tower, The, 151

Ying-ying (heroine of The West Chamber), 123-5

Yüan Chen, 113

Yüan drama conventions, 123-4, 136

Yüan lyrics, 108

Yu, Doctor, 224-5