Contents

A Report on “First Symposium on Training for

and Creation of Musicals”        ………………………  Wang Ya-na  7

Cross Borders: Eleventh PQ Exposition  …………………….  Liu Xin-lin  10

Realism on Contemporary German Stage   ……………………  Li Yi-nan  20

Ibsen and Modern Drama        …. ……………………… Martin Esslin   32

                                               Wang Yu-li (tran.)

Peer Gynt on 1980’s Beijing Stage  ……………………………… Gao Ying  42

Grand Narratives, Humanist Concerns, and Gender Reflections

                            ………….………………  Li Xiang-lin  52

Kongfu Film Adaptations of Drama Classics …………………  Chen Lin-xi  63

“The Progressive Cannot Overtake the Backward”：

Modernization of the Chinese Stage ……………………… Yan Li-feng  74

The Peach Blossom Fan and the Mindset of the Literati

           …………  Li Ge-song  Guan Ling-ling  85

Nomenclature of Old Players     ………………………… Jing Xiao-qing   92

A Player and a Scholar: Zhou Yi-bai’s Contributions

to Traditional Chinese Theatre Studies  …………… Miao Huai-ming  104

Music Lessons …………………………LudmilaPetrushevska 135                                                      

Executive Editor in Chief         Shen Lin

Editors                        Huang Jue   Zhao Zhiyong

The Central Academy of Drama

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