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BOOK REVIEWS

As to the dating of this Liu Chih-yüan CKT, the authors of the book now under review also have said nothing. Yet, in Thomas F. Carter's well-known work The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward (revised by L. C. Goodrich, 1955, New York), chapter X, footnote 16, this incomplete CKT is acknowledged as being printed around 1300, namely in the early years of the 14th century.

This reviewer's third minor dissatisfaction concerns the neglected relationships between chu-kung-tiao and some other folk-literatures in China. According to a statistical account contributed by Professor Cheng Ch'ien, the Hsi-hsiang-chi CKT by Tung Chih-yüan has used 15 kung-tiao and 129 ch'ü-tiao. As Cheng has pointed out, at least 66 out of 129 of these ch'ü-tiao are derived from four different sources4. Jen Erh-pei5, on the other hand, presenting different statistics, has pointed out the origin of 28 ch'ü-tiao of chu-kung-tiao and also demonstrated the continuation of these ch'ü-tiao with reference to the Northern drama of the Yuan period, the Southern drama of the Yüan and Ming periods, the Tsa-chü play of the Sung, the Yuan-pen play of the Chin and Yuan periods. Furthermore, he has even added the chia-ch'u songs of Mongolia, the T'ang music in Japan, and the Sung music in Korea into his statistics. The "Introduction" of the Ballad of the Hidden Dragon would be more authoritative had the above quoted statistical studies in relation to the CKT study been fully utilized. Mention could also have been made of Chien Nan-yang's analysis of the relationship between the Lin Chih-yüan CKT and the pai-t'u chi6 — a southern drama written in the Ming period.

* See Cheng Ch'ien, "Tung's 'Western Pavilion, the Literary Link between the Tzu Lyrics and the Ch' Ballads of the Southern and Northern schools”, in Bulletin of the College of Arts, National Taiwan University, vol. II (Taiwan, 1951): 113-137.

5 See Jen Erh-pei: “Chiao-fang-chi chien-ting” (Annotated edition of Chiao-fang-chi) (1962, Peking) pp. 197-254: Appendix II, “Ch'i-ming-liw-pien-piao” (A Table about the History and variations of the titles of Ch'u).

6 See Ch'ien Nan-yang: "Liu Chih-yüan pai-t'u-chi, On the Tale of a White Hare about Liu Chih-yüan”, in his Yüan ming nan-hsi kuo-liao. Some Brief Remarks on the Southern Dramas of the Yuan and Ming periods (1958, Peking), pp. 28-33.
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987
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BRYCE, Louise W 9.12.1912

BUCHANAN, Charles 11.9.1873

BURDETT, Frederick 24.1.1940

BUCHANAN, Archibald 21.7.1909 BULLEN, Arthur Pearce 23.3.1905 BURDETT, Jane Cerile 31.5.1909 Deane

BURNETT, Edward 8.5.1936

BUTTNER, Albert 31.1.1907

CADDEM, Patrick 14.9.1906

CAGLI, Augusto 21.5.1888 Rattway

CAMPION, Thomas 20.7.1864

CARTER, Bessie Ann 16.12.1942

CHALMERS, Frank 5.8.1958

CHAMBERS, Elizabeth 27.2.1917 Morton

CHAPMAN, Henry 14.3.1883

CHEEL, James 18.3.1923 Grafton

CLARKE, Edgar 18.10.1901 CLEAR, Charles Arnold 5.2.1945 Charles

CLELAND, William 20.8.1937

COATES, John H 5.5.1902 Alexander

COLEMAN, John 30.5.1904

COLLER, 1st infant son 6.11.1872 of Richard Lovett

COLLER, 2nd infant 1.4.1874 son of Richard Lovett

COLLETT, Henry 18.8.1903 George Outram

CONGDON, Jane E 19.2.1898

COOK, CJ 12.9.1946

COOKE, Doris Ann 17.10.1942

COTEZ, Frank 5.8.1918

CRICHTON, Lloyd 18.7.1945

CROCKETT, LS Not known James

CUNNEEN, Miss E F 12.5.1950

CURRY, Charles 7.9.1903

DAKIN, George J 2.7.1883

DALE, CE 30.5.1904

DAMASKOS, Nikolas 17.12.1962

DAVIS, Thomas 28.10.1883

DEBLOIS, John Emory 3.8.1874

DEBRUNNER, Alphons 11.2.1952

DECKER, Ernest

DENNISON, William 5.10.1882

DE HASS, Theodorus 17.8.1909 Marie 25.7.1904

DEWHURST, Fred 25.12.1915

DICKINSON, John 3.5.1949

DONISCH, Arthur 24.2.1883 Herbert

DORRINGTON, Nellie 16.9.1902

DOS REMEDIOS, Mary 10.8.1961 Paz

DOS REMEDIOS, Jose 22.8.1962 Florencio

DOS REMEDIOS, Pacita Godinez 3.1968

DREYFUS, Ernest 2.9.1906

DUDLEY, Infant 14.2.1880 Gustav

DUFF, William Aitken 20.3.1902

DUKE, John 14.4.1939

DUMARES, John 22.7.1922

DUNCAN, William 27.7.1899 Saumarez Cunning

DUNN, JC J 10.4.1949

DYKES, Oswald S 19.1.1930

EATON, Red Campbell 21.4.1877

EDWARDS, John E 26.10.1924

EHLERS, J G 1.11.1878

ELERTIS, Nicholas 21.6.1964

ELLAMS, John David 11.5.1946

ELZINGER, Auguste 26.4.1879

ENTICKNAP, G H 27.5.1915

EWART, Henry 9.7.1894

FABIAN, Adolf 29.4.1886

FAIRCLOUGH, Ferdinand J 5.7.1897

FALKNER, Samuel 27.4.1903

FALLOT, Lymae 11.7.1919 William

FARREN, John W 23.8.1864

FARNES, Walter S 7.6.1942

FEELDING, Susie 15.1.1939

FERBER, Johann 8.1.1890 Bernard
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989
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2.3.1864 (Wedn)

Performance by the amateurs of the Royal Artillery.

No plays are mentioned in the announcement (NCH 27.2.1864).

4.3.1864 (Fri)

Performance by Mrs. Greig: "dramatic reading and English ballad music” with the cooperation of Mr. Marquis Chisholm, piano, and the Rhenish Band.

N.N. (H)

R: This was an evening at which the Herald predicted that "ladies may without impropriety be present". Mrs. GREIG had had “a most successful career in India and the colonies" and it was the first time she had come to Shanghai (NCH 27.2.1864).

28.3.1864 (Mon)

T. KORNER: "The Governess" (“Die Gouvernante')

T: Farce (1 act)

A.F.F. Von KOTZEBUE: "The Harvest at Home"

N.N.: Bullrick at Kroll"

C: Amateurs of His Prussian M.S. Gazelle

Th: On board ship(?)

N: It is not recorded in which language these pieces were played: titles and authors are those given by the Herald. Of Kotzebue's play I have not been able to find a German equivalent. HED, however, mentions some plays with the same title by British authors: Thomas Parry (1848) and Charles Dibdin (1787), as well as some by unknown playwrights.

R: Perhaps in some fear, the Herald noted with a sigh of relief that "the evening passed off without a single contretemps" (NCH 2.4.1864). Curiously enough the only ship in port with the name "Gazelle" was a British merchantman which had arrived there from Hankow on the 22nd.

30.3.1864 (Wedn)

M.W.B. JERROLD: "Cool as a Cucumber" (1851)

T: Farce (1 act)

J. KENNEY: "Raising the Wind" (1803)

T: Farce (2 acts)

J.S. COYNER: "Duck Hunting” (1862)

T: Farce (1 act)

C: Amateurs of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps

F: Prologue, spoken by Commm. R.C. Antrobus

Th: N.N. (H)

N: First performance of the season

R: After a brief period in which the actual names of resident-amateurs had been published, there was a reversion to the old practice of stage names, at least probably for most actors. A whole list was printed in the Herald (Messrs Talbot, De Jones, Robinson (were these latter two the same as those active in 1858?), Carnegie, Coke, Dolittle, Smith, Blister, Buttons, Bellingham and John; and Mesdemoiselles Olivia, Pipchin, Robinson and Sally), of whom only Mr. Talbot may have been genuine. As usual the female characters of the farces were played by men ("prettier and more graceful amateur ladies than we have ever seen before"), a generally horrid sight for the serious theatregoer. Not so for Shanghailanders for "large numbers of residents who were desirous of obtaining admission were excluded for want of room” (NCH 2.4.1864). A detailed review had appeared in the Daily Shipping News of 31.3.1864, no longer available. Increasingly, instead of full reports, summaries from the daily edition were published until one has to resort entirely to the Daily News; of Survey).
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