Yuan tsa-chu theater, a theatrical form under Mongol rule between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, has been studied as a literary and a dramatic form. Hardly explored are the ritualistic aspects of this pioneering form of theater in the history of Chinese theater. Howeve…
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The history of Chinese painting has often been divided by Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and later Chinese critics and theorists into two opposing "schools": the "good" school of the amateur Confucian scholar-painters who painted solely for self-expression; and the "bad" school of pro…
A salient feature of Yuan tsa-chu (1234-1368) is that women are characterized as the superior sex in about seventy of the one hundred and sixty-two extant plays. The reversal of gender roles is itself a unique phenomenon because this dramatic literature was produced by men in a …