[The names of Chinese dramas are printed in italics]
- Albright, Victor, 201, 216, 217, 218
- Amateurs, 109
- Archer, William, 217, 219
- Autumn in the House of Han. See Sorrows of Han
- Bakst, Leon, 214
- Bazin, A. P. L., 4
- Beating the Heartless Husband, 90
- Beating the Nephew and Worshiping at the Grave, 87
- Blood-Stained Fan, The, 70
- Brodmeier, Professor, 217
- Burying the Flowers, 80, 179
- Butchering the Pig, 168
- Chalk Circle, The, 32
- Ch’ang An, 3, 15, 48, 50, 74
- Chang Chien, Mr., 113
- Ch’ang-O’s Flight to the Moon, 104 ff., 159
- Ch’ang-O Pin Yüeh. See Ch’ang-O’s Flight to the Moon
- Ch’ang Shan Tien. See Palace of Eternal Life
- Chang Yao-shang, actor, 15
- Chang Ziang-ling, 142
- Chao Chia Ku-er. See Orphan of the Chao Family
- Chao Mei Hsiang. See Intrigues of a Lady’s Maid
- Chao Tsung, Emperor, 15
- Character Types, 25, 112, 149, 151, 152, 153, 175
- Chen Kwang Theater, 181
- Ch’i San Hui. See Three Strange Meetings
- Ch’ien Lung, Emperor, 69
- Ch’ing Shang Lao Shüeh. See Slave Girl Plays Tricks on the Old Schoolmaster
- Ch’ing Shih Shan, 194
- Chu Fang Tsao. See Butchering the Pig
- Chu Sha Chü. See Cinnabar Spot, A
- Chu Su-yün, actor, 83, 86
- Chü T’eng Kuan Hua. See Trial of Strength and Viewing the Ancestral Portraits
- Chu Yuan-chang. See Hung Wu
- Ch’un Yin Hui. See Meeting of Many Heroes
- Cinnabar Spot, A, 88
- Civil Plays, 10, 146
- Classical Language. See Wen Li
- Clowns, 23, 25, 153, 207. Cf. Court Fools
- Commedia dell’ Arte, 16
- Confucius, 10, 17, 25, 28, 49
- Corbin, John, 215
- Coryat, Thomas, 208
- Court Fool, Yu Meng, 12
- Yu Sze, 12
- Court Fools, 11, 12, 15, 16. Cf. Clowns
- Craig, Gordon, 214
- Crossing the Milky Way, 159, 194
- Dances, Dramatic, 6
- Dottore. See Commedia dell’ Arte
- Dream of the Red Chamber, The, 80, 93, 188
- Drunkard, 13
- Duke Lan Lu, 13
- Dwarfs, 11, 13. Cf. Court Fools
- Elizabethan Theater, 25, 133, 194 ff.
- Empress Dowager, 188
- Fan Kuai, 15
- Feng Yu-hsiang, General, 195
- Fools, Court. See Court Fools
- Gamble, Sidney, 133, 144
- Giles, Herbert, 18, 59, 80, 180, 207
- Goodrich, Mrs., 104
- Greatest Event in Life, The, 119 ff.
- Greek Theater, 10, 192 ff.
- Grube, Wilhelm, 80
- Han Hsi-ch’ang, actor, 140
- Han Kung Tsu. See Sorrows of Han
- Han Lin Academy, 4, 43
- Harlequin. See Commedia dell’ Arte
- Ho Lan-chi. See Chalk Circle, The
- Ho Lang Tan. See Singing Girl, The
- Ho Yi, Emperor, 105
- Hsi Hsiang Chi. See Western Chamber, The
- Hsien, 7, 11
- Hsü Mu Ma Tsao. See Hsü’s Mother Curses Tsao Tsao
- Hsü’s Mother Curses Tsao Tsao, 81
- Hu Shih, 11, 21, 22, 74, 78, 117, 198
- Hung Lou Meng. See Dream of the Red Chamber, The
- Hung Sen, author, 70
- Hung Wu, Emperor, 43
- Intrigue of a Lady’s Maid, 26
- I-Yin, 7
- Jade Palace, 3
- Jen Tsung, Emperor, 43
- Jesters. See Court Fools
- Jung Tu-shan, 113, 115
- K’an Tsien Wu. See Miser, The
- K’ang Hsi, Emperor, 69, 182
- Kuan Han-ching, dramatist, 23
- Kuan Yin, 99
- Kublai Khan, 19
- Kung Chuan Chi. See Ruse of the Empty City
- Kung Shang-jen, author, 70
- Lao Tze, 28
- Laufer, Berthold, 10, 11, 99
- Lessing, Ferdinand, 207
- Li Fang-yün, 137
- Li Shou-shan, actor, 83
- Li Yuan Tzu-ti, 3
- Liao Chai. See Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
- Literary Language. See Wen Li
- Liu Ming-ju, 135
- Liu Yen Ming, 96
- Marco Polo, 23, 41
- Mask, The, 13, 14
- Meeting of Many Heroes, The, 82
- Mei Lan-fang, Chapter VIII; 80, 83, 84, 86, 98, 104, 105, 110, 118, 138, 142, 143, 145, 150, 151, 152, 155, 157, 159, 206, 211
- Mencius, 17, 28
- Military Plays, 10, 13, 77, 79, 146
- Ming Huang (Yuen Tsung), Emperor, 3, 70, 135, 181
- Miser, The, 35 ff.
- Mu Lan, 185, 201, 212
- Music, Types of, 142, 147, 191 ff.
- Musical Instruments, 148 ff., 192
- New Mayor, The, 115
- New World, 132, 143
- Ngoh Chia Chuan. See Ngoh Family Village
- Ngoh Family Village, 87
- Orphan of the Chao Family, The, 37, 94
- Pai Hua, 21, 22
- Palace of Eternal Life, 4, 70
- Pang Ta Poo Ching Lang. See Beating the Heartless Husband
- Pantalone. See Commedia dell’ Arte
- Pantomimes, 6
- Pavilion of the Royal Monument, 184
- Pear Garden, 3, 18, 135
- Pi Pa Chi. See Story of a Lute
- P’iao Yu. See Amateurs
- Plays, Types of, 146 ff., 197
- Po She Chuan. See White and Black Snakes, The
- Porter, Lucius, 11, 14
- Precious Hairpin, The, 93
- Reinhardt, Max, 214
- Ridgeway, Professor William, 9, 10
- Ruse of the Empty City, The, 80
- Ruse of the Nail, The, 157
- San Kuo Chi. See Three Kingdoms, The
- San Yao Hui. See Shaking Dice
- Scapino. See Commedia dell’ Arte
- Seasonal Plays, 104 ff., 159, 194
- Seeing the Ancestral Portraits. See Trial of Strength
- Shaking Dice, 98
- Sha Tze Pao. See Slaying the Son
- Shang Ting Chi. See Ruse of the Nail
- Shih Hu. See Hu Shih
- Shih Wang-ti, Emperor, 12
- Shui Hu Chuan. See Story of a River Bank
- Singing Girl, The, 29
- Slave Girl Plays Tricks on the Old Schoolmaster, The, 183
- Slaying of the Son, 158
- Smith, Doctor Arthur H., 66, 68
- Snow in June. See Sufferings of Tou-E
- Soong Tsung-faung, author, 12, 117, 118
- Sophists. See Court Fools
- Sorrowful Korean, The, 114
- Sorrows of Han, 37
- Spring Willow Dramatic Society, 112
- Ssu Pao-pi. See Drunkard, The
- Stäel Holstein, Baron de, 179
- Stanton, William, 4, 159
- Stent, George Carter, 71
- Stephenson, Professor H. T., 214, 215
- Story of a Lute. See Chapter III
- Story of the River Bank, 79
- Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, 80
- Suen Lo Ngao, 12
- Sufferings of Tou-E, 23, 39, 142
- Ta Chih Shang Wen. See Beating the Nephew
- Ta Yin Ho. See Crossing the Milky Way
- Tai Yü Chuan Hua. See Burying the Flowers
- Taine, H., 205
- T’an Shen-pei, actor, 149, 188
- T’an Shoo-shan, actor, 150
- T’ao Hua Shan. See Blood-Stained Fan, The
- Taoism, 34
- Teh Hing, actor, 152
- Theater. See Elizabethan Theater; Greek Theater
- Thorndyke, Professor A. H., 198, 203, 208
- Three Kingdoms, The, 78, 79, 80
- Three Pulls. See Three Strange Meetings
- Three Strange Meetings, 83, 180
- Tiger, The, 14
- T’ing Hua, critic, 154
- Tou-E. See Sufferings of Tou-E
- Transmigration of You Hsin, 33
- Trial of Strength and Viewing the Ancestral Portraits, 94, 183
- Tsai Yuan-pei, 58
- Tung Lo Yuan, 140
- Types of Character. See Character Types
- Types of Music. See Music, Types of
- Types of Plays. See Plays, Types of
- Vernacular. See Pai Hua
- Wang Kuo-wei, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23
- Wen Li, 20, 21
- Western Chamber, The, 24
- White and Black Snakes, The, 100
- Wu, 7, 11
- Wu Lien-teh, Mrs., 71
- Wu Wang, Empress, 7
- Yang Kuei-fei, 4, 70, 71, 72 ff., 159, 181 ff.
- Yang Kuei-fei on a Spree, 157, 181
- Yang Kuei-fei Tsui Chou. See Yang Kuei-fei on a Spree
- Yang Shiao-lo, actor, 138, 151, 155
- Yellow Jacket, The, 170, 200, 216
- Yi Tsai Hua, 111
- Yo Fei, 91, 92, 134
- Young Nun Seeks Love, A, 178
- Yü Chan Chih. See Precious Hairpin, A
- Yu Meng, Court Fool, 12
- Yü Pei T’ing. See Pavilion of the Royal Monument
- Yü San-yen, actor, 150
- Yü Sze, Court Fool, 12
- Yuen Tsung. See Ming Huang
- Yung Lo, Emperor, 47