The latest issue of CHINOPERL: Journal of Oral and Performing Literature (July 2016) is now available online at
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ychi20/35/1.
Information on the journal, membership and individual subscriptions is available at https://chinoperl.osu.edu/journal.
In this issue:
ARTICLES
Maids, Fishermen, and Storytellers: Rewriting Marginal Characters in Early Qing Drama and Fiction
MARIA FRANCA SIBAU
Liu Qingti’s Canine Rebirth and Her Ritual Career as the Heavenly Dog: Recasting Mulian’s Mother in Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) Recitation
XIAOSU SUN
BOOK REVIEWS
La réforme de l’opéra de Pékin [Peking opera reform]. By Maël Renouard
JOSH STENBERG
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History. By James A. Benn.
PETER MICIC
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera. By Ma Haili.
EMILY E. WILCOX
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
The 2015 Inaugural Shanghai Experimental Xiqu (Chinese Indigenous Theater) Festival, December 1-6
JOSH STENBERG
Two Beijing Spoken Drama Comedies Featuring Social Critique Seen in the Summer of 2014
JING SHEN
Zhang Huoding’s Performances of Legend of the White Snake and The Jewelry Purse at
David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center on September 2 and 3, 2015
ROSE JANG
IN MEMORIAM
In Memory of Věna Hrdličková, 1925–2016
VIBEKE BØRDAHL
Margaret Wan, Editor of CHINOPERL
margaret.wan@utah.edu