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Volume 8 • Issue 1 • April 2021
Special Issue The Protean World of Sanqu Songs
PATRICIA SIEBER, Editor
Introduction
PATRICIA SIEBER
Sanqu and Its Relationship to the Theater
The Ultimate Sanqu Song:
Yao Shouzhong’s “The Complaint of the Ox” and Its Place in Tanaka Kenji’s Scholarship on Sanqu
WILT L. IDEMA
Performing the Emperor:
Sui Jingchen’s “Han Gaozu Returns to His Home Village”
KARIN MYHRE
Performing the Role of Playwright:
Jia Zhongming’s Sanqu Songs in the Supplement to The Register of Ghosts
WENBO CHANG
Sanqu as a Cultural Form and Its Social Diffusion
A Dialectic Between Genres and Extension of Poetic Functions: Zhang Kejiu’s “Regulated Songs”
JAEHYUK LEE
Yuan-Ming Sanqu Songs as Communal Texts:
Discovering Their Literary Vitality from a New Research Perspective
YE YE
ERXIN WANG, Translator
In Praise of This Prosperous and Harmonious Empire:
Sanqu, Ming Anthologies, and the Imperial Court
TIAN YUAN TAN
Sanqu and Literary Translation
In Search of Pure Sound: Sanqu Songs, Genre Aesthetics, and Translations Tactics
PATRICIA SIEBER et al.
Theoretical Reflections
A Flavor All Its Own: Some Theoretical Considerations on Sanqu Songs as Mixed-Register Literature
PATRICIA SIEBER
Contributors