Selected
Bibliography

Chapter 1. Humor in Art

d’Argencé, René Yvon Lefebvre, Chinese Treasures in the Avery Brundage Collection, New York, 1968.

Bachhofer, Ludwig, A Short History of Chinese Art, London, 1946.

Bowie, Theodore, East-West in Art, Bloomington, Ind., 1966.

Bunker, Emma C., Bruce Chatwin, and Anna R. Farkas, Animal Style Art from East to West, New York, 1970.

Cammann, S., China’s Dragon Robes, New York, 1952.

Cahill, James, The Art of Southern Sung China, New York, 1962.

——, Chinese Painting, New York, 1960.

——, Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting, New York, 1967.

Chiang Yee, The Chinese Eye, London, 1960.

Cohn, William, Chinese Painting, New York, 1950.

Fry, Roger, ed., Chinese Art, New York, 1935.

Gray, Basil, and Sir Leigh Ashton, Chinese Art, London, 1952.

Gray, Basil, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1952.

Grousset, René, Chinese Art and Culture, New York, 1959.

Gyllensvärd, Bo, and J. A. Pope, Chinese Art from the Collections of H. M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, New York, 1968.

Hajik, Lubor, Chinese Art, London, n. d.

Hansford, S. H., Chinese Jade Carving, London, 1950.

Jenyns, Soame, A Background to Chinese Painting, London, 1935.

——, Later Chinese Porcelain, New York, 1964.

——, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953.

Lee, Sherman E., A History of Far Eastern Art, New York, 1964.

Mizuno, Seiichi, Bronzes and Jades of Ancient China, Tokyo, 1959.

Priest, Alan, Aspects of Chinese Painting, New York, 1954.

Rowley, George, Principles of Chinese Painting, Princeton, 1947.

Sickman, Laurence and Alexander C. Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, Baltimore, 1960.

Siren, Osvald, The Chinese on the Art of Painting, Peking, 1936.

——, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, 7 vols., New York, 1956-58.

——, Chinese Sculpture, 4 vols., London, 1935.

——, A History of Early Chinese Painting, 2 vols., London, 1933.

——, A History of Later Chinese Painting, 2 vols., London, 1938.

Speiser, Werner, The Art of China: Spirit and Society, New York, 1960.

Sullivan, Michael, An Introduction to Chinese Art, London, 1961.

Swann, Peter C., Chinese Painting, Paris, 1958.

Sze, Mai-mai, The Way of Chinese Painting, New York, 1959.

Taichung National Palace Museum, Art in China, 6 vols., Taipei, 1955.

——, Chinese Cultural Art Treasures, Taipei, 1965.

Visser, H. F. E., Asiatic Art, New York, 1952.

Waley, Arthur, Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting, London, 1924.

Watson, William, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962.

Willetts, William, Chinese Art, 2 vols., London, 1958.

Chapter 2. Humor in Poetry

Birch, Cyril, Anthology of Chinese Literature, New York, 1965.

Bynner, Witter, and Kiang Kang-hu, The Jade Mountain, New York, 1929, 1964.

Chen, J. C., and Michael Bullock, Poems of Solitude, London, 1960.

Frodsham, J. D., and Ch’eng Hsi, An Anthology of Chinese Verse, London, 1967.

Graham, A. C., Poems of the Late T’ang, Baltimore, 1965.

Hawkes, David, Ch’u Tz’u, Songs of the South, London, 1959.

Hightower, James R., The Poetry of T’ao Ch’ien, London, 1970.

Hung, William, Tu Fu: China’s Greatest Poet, Cambridge, 1952.

Karlgren, Bernhard, The Book of Odes, Stockholm, 1950.

Lao Tzu, The Way and Its Power, tr. by Arthur Waley, London, 1935.

——, The Way of Lao Tzu, tr. by Wing-tsit Chan, Indianapolis, 1965.

Li Po, The Works of Li Po, tr. by Shigeyoshi Obata, New York, 1922, 1964.

Liu, Hsieh, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, tr. by Vincent Y. C. Shih, New York, 1959.

Liu, James J. Y., The Art of Chinese Poetry, Chicago, 1962.

Liu, Shih Shun, One Hundred and One Chinese Poems, Hong Kong, 1967.

Liu, Wu-chi, An Introduction to Chinese Literature, Bloomington, Ind., 1966.

Payne, Robert, ed., The White Pony, New York, 1947.

Rexroth, Kenneth, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, New York, 1959.

Su Tung-p’o, Poems, tr. by Burton Watson, New York, 1965.

T’ao Ch’ien, Poems, tr. by Pao-hu Chang and Marjorie Sinclair, Honolulu, 1953.

Waley, Arthur, The Book of Songs, New York, 1954.

——, Chinese Poems, London, 1964.

——, The Life and Times of Po Chü-i, London, 1949.

——, 170 Chinese Poems, London, 1919.

——, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, New York, 1950.

——, The Temple and Other Poems, London, 1923.

Wang Wei, Poems by Wang Wei, tr. by Chang Yin-nan and Lewis C. Walmesley, Rutland, Vt., 1958.

Watson, Burton, Early Chinese Poetry, New York, 1962.

Wells, Henry W., Ancient Poetry from China, Japan and India, Columbia, S. C., 1968.

Yang, Richard F. S. and Charles P. Metzger, Fifty Songs from the Yüan, London, 1967.

Chapter 3. Humor in Drama

Arlington, J. C., and Harold Acton, Famous Chinese Plays, Peking, 1937; New York, 1963.

Birch, Cyril, Anthology of Chinese Literature, translations of Li K’uei fu ching (Li K’uei Carries Thorns) and Han kung ch’iu (Autumn in the Palace of Han), New York, 1965.

Bowers, Faubion, Theatre in the East, New York, 1956.

Ch’ang-sheng tien (The Palace of Eternal Youth), tr. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Peking, 1955.

Chao shih ku-erh (A Little Orphan of the Family of Chao), in Du Halde’s History of China, 1735, English translations, anon., London, 1736, 1741.

The Fisherman’s Revenge, anon., tr. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Peking, 1958.

Ho han Shan (The Compared Tunic), tr. by J. F. Davis, London, 1849.

Hui lan chi (The Chalk Circle), tr. by Ethel Van der Veer in Clark, Barrett H., World Drama, New York, 1933; also tr. by Frances Hume, Emmaus, Pa., 1954.

Irwin, Vera R., ed., Four Classical Asian Plays (containing The West Chamber, tr. by H. W. Wells), Baltimore, 1971.

Kuan Han-ch’ing, Selected Plays, tr. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Peking, 1955.

Lao sheng erh (An Heir in His Old Age), tr. by J. F. Davis, London, 1817.

Madame Cassia, anon., tr. by Yao Hsien-nung in The T’ien Hsia Monthly, Dec., 1935, pp. 537-584.

Scott, A. C.The Classical Theatre of China, New York, 1957.

——, Traditional Chinese Plays, I, Madison, Wisc., 1967.

——, Traditional Chinese Plays, II, Madison, Wisc., 1969.

Wang Pao-ch’uan, Lady Precious Stream, tr. by S. I. Hsiung, London, 1935.

Wang Shih-fu, The West Chamber, tr. by H. H. Hart, California, 1936; also by S. I. Hsiung, London, 1936; New York, 1968.

Wells, Henry W., The Classical Drama of the Orient, Bombay, 1965.

The White Snake, anon., tr. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Peking, 1958.

Chapter 4. Humor in Narratives

Birch, Cyril, Stories from a Ming Collection, London, 1958; Bloomington, Ind., 1958, New York, 1968.

Chin p’ing mei, The Golden Lotus, tr. by Clement Egerton, London, 1939; New York, 1954.

Howell, E. Butts, The Inconstancy of Madame Chuang and Other Stories, London, 1924.

Hsi-yu chi, translated as Monkey by Arthur Waley, London, 1942, and as The Monkey King by George Theiner, London, 1964.

Hung-lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), tr. by Chi-chen Wang, New York, 1929, 1958.

Ju-lin wai-shih (The Scholars), tr. by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Peking, 1957.

Kao, George, ed., Chinese Wit and Humor, New York, 1946.

Lao Ts’an yu-chi (The Travels of Lao Ts’an), tr. by Harold Shadick, Ithaca, 1952, 1969.

Liao-chai chih-i (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio), tr. by Herbert A. Giles, London, 1880, 1908, 1910, 1925.

San-kuo chih (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), tr. by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, Rutland, Vt., 1959.

Shui-hu chuan (All Men Are Brothers), tr. by Pearl S. Buck, New York, 1933, 1937.

Wang, Chi-chen, Traditional Chinese Tales, New York, 1944.