William Dolby

Written in 1967 and self-published in 2003, this work represents the 1st of 33 of the Chinese Culture Series.

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Drama has played an enormous part in Chinese society through the ages, and Kuan Han-ch'ing (ca. 1220-ca. 1300) was not only the first known Chinese playwright, but a brilliant one, whose work continues to be greatly admired, and to reverberate in many ways, in modern Chinese life. Flourishing during the reign of the Mongol emperor Khublai Khan in the then mightiest metropolis of the world, ancient Peking, the Great Capital, he composed many plays, the essential core of which were vivid songs known as ch'u arias, and many memorable independent non-drama ch'u arias.

The ch'u aria genre has been one of China's three major kinds of of poetry through the ages, and this present book, besides being the first major study of Kuan Han-ch'ing, is also the first one on the ch'u aria, in addressing the subject and which then provides the earliest extensive English-language research on the first book about northern Mandarin, the national language of China as Chou Te-ch'ings Pronunciations and rhymes of the Central Plain, examining Kuan's arias in the light of it.

1. Kuan Han-Ch'ing: China's first Playwright
2. Bring on the Wine and other Poems by Li Pai
3. Chinese Poetry Through The Ages: an Anthology
4. Chinese Short Stories - Spanning 2000 Years
5. History of early Chinese Ch'ü-aria Poetry
6. Sayings of Confucius and his Students
7. Ma Chih-yüan's Complete San-ch'ü-aria Poems
8. Wang Shi-Fu, Author of China's Most Famous Play
9. West Wing Chantefable by Tung Chieh-yüan
10. Sir Old, the Chinese Classic of Taoism
11. Peking Opera
12. Yüan Dynasty Variety Plays
13. Mr Ma and son in London
14. Songs Classic: China’s earliest poetry anthology
15. Classical Chinese textbook
16. Three Hundred T'ang Dynasty Poems
17. Yüan Dynasty Variety Play dramas: 100 stories
18. Chinese Folk-tales
19. Chinese Humour: an Anthology
20. Gold-producing Mansion
21. Chinese Riddles
22. Chinese Elliptical Idioms (hsieh-hou-yu)
23. West Wing, China's most famous drama
24. Washing Silk, a drama by Liang Ch'en-yi (1520-ca.1580)
25. Chinee Drama Poems
26. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
27. Chinese Myths
28. Chinese Prose: Biographies, Prefaces, Anecdotes ...
29. Lasting-life Palace-hall by Hung Sheng (1654-1704)
30. Chinese non-drama aria-poems, an anthology (VOLUME ONE)
31. Chinese Poetry Through the Ages
32. Dictionary of Chinese Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings
33. Anthology of Chinese non-drama aria-poems (VOLUME TWO)