PEKING OPERA AND ITS GREAT MASTER MEI LANFANG&WuZuguang 1
PEKING OPERA—A COMPREHENSIVE ART FORM 2
THE ORIGIN OF PEKING OPERA 3
SYMBOLISM IN ACTING 4
MUSIC,DIALOGUES AND SONGS 6
DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROLES 7
MAKE-UP COSTUMES AND PROPS 9
MEI LANFANG—THE GREAT MASTER OF PEKING OPERA 10
BORN TO A FAMILY OF ACTORS 11
BOTH SUCCESSOR AND PIONEER 12
SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS 23
ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY 25
MEI LANFANG,STANISLAVSKY,BRECHT—A STUDY IN CONTRASTS&Huang Zuolin 27
ENDLESS SEARCH FOR NEW THEATRICAL TRUTHS 28
SALIENT FEATURES OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE THEATER 29
BRECHT'S THEORY OF DRAMA IN CONTRAST TO STANISLAVSKY'S 31
COMMON FEATURES OF THREE GREAT MASTERS OF REALISM 33
THE MOST BASIC DIFFERENCE 34
AN APPRECIATION OF MEI LANFANG'S ART 37
DIFFERENT DRAMATIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS 44
BRECHT'S ADOPTION OF CHINESE THEATRICAL TECHNIQUES 45
AN INTERESTING QUESTION OF GOOD OR BAD ACTING 47
TECHNIQUES OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL ACTING 48
INNER CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE THEATER 49
REFLECTIONS ON MY STAGE LIFE&Mei Lanfang 53
MEI LANFANG AS SEEN BY HIS FOREIGN AUDIENCES AND CRITICS&Mei Shaowu 75
EARLY EFFORTS TO POPULARIZE PEKING OPERA AMONG FOREIGN AUDIENCES 76
FIRST PERFORMANCE BEFORE A FOREIGN AUDIENCE 77
VISITS TO JAPAN 78
ENTERTAINING FOREIGN GUESTS AT HOME,PROPOSAL FOR U.S.TOUR 79
SUCCESSFUL U.S.TOUR 90
AMERICAN HOSPITALITY 90
SENTIMENTS OF THE AUDIENCES 92
MEI LANFANG IN THE EYES OF U.S.CRITICS 93
"HIGHEST POINT IN THE SEASON'S THEATER" 93
"GREEK AND ELIZABETHAN PARALLELS" 94
"DEXTEROUS REALISM" 96
"ACTOR,SINGER AND DANCER COMBINED" 98
"AMBASSADOR OF CHINESE CULTURE" 100
A GREAT STAGE SUCCESS IN THE SOVIET UNION(1935) 102
PRESS COMMENTS 102
SWAPPING EXPERIENCES 103
STANISLAVSKY'S INTERPRETATION 104
EISENSTEIN'S APPRAISAL 105
FRIENDSHIP WITH TAGORE 106
WITH BERNARD SHAW AND PAUL ROBESON 108
A GUIDE TO PEKING OPERA 111
1．THE TYPES OF ROLES 112
2．SINGING AND DECLAMATION 118
3．PANTOMIME AND ACTING 122
4．COSTUMES 126
5．STAGE PROPERTIES AND SYMBOLISM 138
6．MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 144
APPENDIX:SYNOPSES OF 25 PEKING OPERAS 152
THE ORPHAN OF THE ZHAOS 152
THE GENERAL AND THE MINISTER ARE RECONCILED 153
BEAUTY DEFIES TYRANNY 155
THE KING'S PARTING WITH HIS FAVORITE 156
ZHAOJUN CROSSING THE FRONTIER 158
THE EMPTY CITY RUSE 159
THE CROSSROADS 160
THE WHITE SNAKE 161
HAVOC IN HEAVEN 163
YANDANG MOUNTAIN 164
THE DRUNKEN BEAUTY 165
THE HEROINE SHE SAIHUA 166
MU GUIYING TAKES COMMAND 168
QIN XIANGLIAN,THE FORSAKEN WIFE 169
CALLING OFF THE FEAST 174
WILD BOAR FOREST 175
THE FISHERMAN'S REVENGE 176
AUTUMN RIVER 177
PICKING UP A JADE BRACELET 178
CHUN XIANG UPSETS THE STUDY 179
THE FAIRY OF AZURE LAKE 180
SELLING WATER 182
DONATING A PEARL ON RAINBOW BRIDGE 183
LADY MAGNOLIA 184
ROMANCE OF AN IRON BOW 185
INDEX 187