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  3. A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming

A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming

Dale R. Johnson
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For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no comprehensive dictionary or glossary for this literature existed in any language, Asian or Western.

A Glossary of Words and Phrases fills this gap for Western readers, allowing even a relative novice who has resonable command of Chinese to read, translate, and appreciate this great body of literature with an ease undreamed of even two decades ago. The Glossary is organized into approximately 8,000 entries based on the reading notes and glosses found in various dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, and editions of works from the period. Main entries are listed alphabetically in the pinyin romanization system. In addition to glosses, entries include symbolic annotations, guides to pronunciation, and text citations. The result is a broadly useful glossary serving the needs of students of this literature as well as scholars researching Jin and Yuan language and its usage.

  • Cover
  • Frontispiece
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • User's Guide
  • The GLOSSARY
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • W
  • X
  • Y
  • Z
  • Appendix I. Code to Textual Citations
  • Appendix II. Asian Languages Bibliography
  • Appendix III. Western Languages Bibliography
  • Appendix IV. Index of Characters Appearing as First Characters in Entries
  • Appendix V. Kangxi Radicals Table
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
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Published: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-03823-7 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-90176-0 (open access)
  • 978-0-89264-138-3 (hardcover)
Series
  • Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies
Subject
  • Asian Studies:China
  • Literary Studies:Asian Literature
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