Contents

Notes on Performances Presented in the Centenary of the Birth of Spoken Drama

………………………………………………………………Liao Xianghong   4

Hong KongSymposium of “A Century of Chinese Spoken Drama”:

A General Survey……………Delegation of the Central Academy of Drama  8

Writing Spoken Drama History: Review and Reflection

………………………………………………………………Hu Changping 10

A Hundred Years of Modern Theatre Education in China  …………Jia Jichuan 16

Literary Motifs in China’s Early Modernist Plays…………………Zhao Jianxin  21

Impact of Psychoanalysis on Chinese playwrights during the 1930s

……………………………………………………………………Li Yongqiang 32

Ouyang Yuqian and Black Slave’s Appeal to Heaven: With Reference to

the Early New Drama in China……………………………………Chen Ke 41

Realism or Neo-Romanticism: Aesthetic Characteristics of

The Night of Capturing the Tiger…………………………………   Gu Yan 53

Death in Cao Yu’s Plays…………………………………………………Hu Wei 58

The Butterfly Dream: A Feminist Reconstruction of the Discourse of

Sex and Morality in Chinese Drama …………………………………Jiang Jin 64

Cultural Conflict and Interchange in the Peking Opera Adaptation

of Peer Gynt……………………………………………………Gong Baorong80

Words and Truth: A Review of Doubt………………………………Zhao Zhiyong 87

Notes on National Theatrical Project Plays 2005-2006

………………………………………………………………Zhang Zhongnian 94

Executive Editor in Chief       Shen Lin

Editors                        Huang Jue   Zhao Zhiyong

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