Index
actors
clothing of
4, 80n43
guilds of
80n43, 101, 136, 265, 266
at imperial court
2, 18
in Northern vs. Southern plays
112
prohibitions against female
275
status of
4, 179–180
students as
65, 112
troupes of
67, 72, 74
See also courtesan culture; sing-song girls
All-Keys-and-Modes (Zhugongdiao) ballad form
in Opts for the Wrong Career
65
in Purple Clouds
68, 110, 111, 113, 118n34, 119n39, 139, 141, 145
in Serpentine Pond
148
Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story in
26–27, 42, 43n40, 49
“All Keys and Modes: Romance in the Courtyard of Purple Clouds” (Zhugongdiao Fengyue Ziyun ting; Shi Junbao). See Purple Clouds
All-Keys-and-Modes: Wind and Moon in the Courtyard of Purple Clouds. See Purple Clouds
Analects (Lunyü)
220n82, 233n21
Annotations to the Classic of Streams (Shuijing zhu)
142n118
An Xiushi (in Saved from the Windy Dust)
225, 226, 227, 229
Art of War (Bingfa; Sun Bin)
125n59
astronomical symbols
79n40, 127n70, 159n47, 160n48, 162nn54–55, 171n77, 239n34
At Jinxiang Pavilion (Jinxiang ting)
283
At Linjiang Hostel: Night Rains on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers (Linjiang yi Xiao Xiang yeyu; Yang Xianzhi)
87n57, 278–279
“At the House of a Sing-song Girl” (Ji men ting; Zhu Tingyu)
9–12
At the Temple of the Sea Divinity Valedictorian Wang Turns his Back on Guiying (Haishen miao Wang Kui fu Guiying)
60n83
Autumn Nights of the Lustrous Emperor of Tang: Rain on the Wutong Tree (Tang Minghuang qiuye wutong yu; Bai Pu)
74, 280–281
Bai Juyi
29, 38n24, 41, 135n93, 146, 148
Bai Pu
74, 179, 279, 280, 282
Bai Xingjian
97n83, 134n91, 146, 241n37
Ban Yangong
5
Bao Zheng (Judge Bao)
131n85, 285–286
“Being Moved by the Past” (Ganjiu; Zhou Bangyan)
123n53
Bing Ji Instructs his Son and Sets Up Emperor Xuan (Bing Ji jiao zi li Xuandi)
88, 285
Biographies of Exemplary Women (Lienü zhuan)
107, 280
“Biography of the Magistrate of Nanke” (Nanke taishou zhuan; Li Gongzuo)
134n90
Book of Documents (Shangshu)
77, 153n19
Book of Odes (Shijing)
77, 133n88, 153n19
Bowu zhi
44n47
Boxer Rebellion
66
Breaking a Troubling Dream: A Lone Goose in Autumn over the Palaces of Han (Po you meng gu yan Han gong qiu; Ma Zhiyuan)
74
Buddhism
236n27, 257n71
Cao Cao
46n49
Cao Xueqin
274–275
Cao Yin
110
Cao Zhi
61n90
Chancellor’s Office (Xiangfuyuan)
286–287
Chang E
79n40
Chen Fan
47n53
Cheng Xueyi
66, 78n36
Chen Sen
275
Chronicle of the Administrative Districts of the Yuanhe Reign Period (Yuanhe junxian zhi)
142n118
chuanqi (musical plays)
17n47, 29, 74, 88n60, 272, 282
Chuci (Airs of Chu)
229n10
ci lyrics
4–5, 7, 15, 31, 34–35, 46n49, 50n65
and Liu Yong
78n38, 181–185, 186, 187
and Purple Clouds
119n37, 123nn52–53, 134n93, 145n128
and Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story
77n29
Cold Hearted Valedictorian Wang (Fuxin Wang Kui)
277
Collected Biographies of the Flowers of Shanghai (Haishanghua liezhuan; Han Bangqing)
276
“Collecting the Titles of Northern Drama To Sing of Love” (Ji zaju ming yongqing; Sun Jichang)
73
Collection of the Green Bower (Qinglou ji; Xia Tingzhi)
4–5, 43n34, 62
Combined Selection of Famous Plays New and Old (Gujin mingju hexuan; Meng Chengxun)
109
Commander Zhou Bo
279
Compendium of Chinese Traditional Plays (Guben xiqu congkan chuji)
66, 283
Confucianism
21, 150
See also Neo-Confucianism
Confucius
229n10
Continuation of the Yi Jian zhi (Xu Yi Jian zhi; Yuan Haowen)
127n70
Couple of Soles (Bimuyu; Li Yu)
272
Court Entertainment Bureau (jiaofang)
2, 18, 20, 68
courtesan culture
1–3, 27, 271–276
in Shanghai
272, 275–276
See also sing-song girls
Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou (Dream of Breeze and Moonlight; Feng yue meng)
275
Cui Hu Asks for Water (Cui Hu yeshui)
279–280
Dai Shanfu
109, 258, 263
Daoism, Inner Elixir
140n110
Di Renjie (Judge Dee)
131n84, 138n105
Dolby, William
63
Dongping (Shandong)
67, 79, 83, 105
Dream of Breeze and Moonlight (Fengyue meng)
275
Dream of Courtesan Quarters (Qinglou meng)
272n5
Drunken Man’s Talk (Zuiweng tanlu)
50, 182–185
“Rare Encounter of Misty Blossoms”
30–40
Du Fu
46n50, 79n39, 122n51, 134n93
Du Shanfu
97n82
Du Weiniang
10
Eight Yang Sutra (Bayang jing)
119n38
Embroidered Singlet (Xiuru ji; Xu Lin)
272
examinations, civil service
compositions in
195n33
in Jin dynasty
65
and Liu Yong
185, 186, 190n29, 258
metaphors for
31n7, 142n118, 145n129
in Opts for the Wrong Career
67, 92n66
in Purple Clouds
112, 117n29, 118n31, 126n66, 138, 142n118, 144n125, 145n129, 166n62
and Shanghai
276
in “Story of Li Wa”
146
and student-courtesan romance
1–3, 13–14, 15, 24, 271
in Xie Tianxiang
215n73
Expansive Record of the Era of Grand Peace (Taiping guangji)
147, 278
Expansive Themes of Yuefu Poetry (Yuefu guangti)
42
Extensive Record of the Forest of Affairs and Events (Shilin guangji)
178n1
Family Praxis (Jiafa; Zhu Xi)
82n45
“Famous Courtesans Mourn Liu the Seventh in the Spring Breeze” (Zhong mingji chunfeng diao Liu Qi; Feng Menglong)
263
“Famous Singer” (Zhao Mingdao)
18–20
Fan Zhongyan
198n40, 285
farces (yuanben)
75, 99n88, 100, 104n96, 282, 283
Fei Tangchen
141n114
Feng Kui (in Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story)
11n34, 28, 41, 43n36, 50–53, 55–58, 60n84, 62, 63
Feng Menglong
263–264, 273
Feng Yuanjun
101n92
Feng Zizhen
7
festivals
154n24, 156n34, 243n41
First Ruler Liu Jumps Sandalwood Creek (Liu xianzhu tiao tanxi)
284
Five Phases
127n70
Flaunting Romantic Elegance, Wang Huan Ascends the Pavilion of One Hundred Flowers (Cheng fengliu Wang Huan Baiyue ting)
147n3
Flowers and Moonlight Grief (Huayue hen; Wei Xiuren)
275
Formulary of Correct Sounds of an Era of Great Peace (Taihe zhengyin pu; Zhu Quan)
75, 106, 109–110, 151, 180
Four Friends Among the Flowers: Su Shi’s Dream (Huajian siyou Dongpo meng; Wu Changling)
141n114
From Walltop to Horseback (Qiangtou mashang; Bai Pu)
282–283
Gao Wenxiu
284
Great King Guan Goes Alone to the Single Sword Meeting (Guan dawang du fu dandao hui)
280
Guan Hanqing
14, 18n48, 26n78, 148, 178–181, 279, 280, 284, 285
Guan Ning Cuts off the Mat (Guan Ning kexi)
286
Guan Yu
280
Gujin xiaoshuo (Yushi mingyan; Feng Menglong)
263
Guo Hua Bought Rouge (Guo Hua mai yanzhi)
278
Hanan, Patrick
275
Han Bangqing
276
Han Guifei (Han Sumei)
17n47
Han History (Hanshu)
285
Han Shou
33n13
Han Sumei
17
Han Xin
86n49
Han Yi
223n87
Han Yuxiao’s Predestined Marriage Over Two Generations (Yuxiao nü liangshi yinyuan; Qiao Ji)
17n45
“Hearing a Tatar Pipe at Night” (Ye wen bili; Du Fu)
134n93
He Yan
210n64
Historian’s Record (Shiji)
77
History of the Five Dynasties (Wudai shi)
119n38
Hong Bian
263
Horses Trample Consort Yang (Ma jian Yang fei)
280–281
Huai, King of Chu
54n70, 117n30
Huang Pilie
113
Huang Zhao (in Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story)
15n41, 43n35, 48n57, 48n60, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 159n46
Huizong Emperor (Song)
123n53, 128n74
Hu Shaowen
35n20
Hu Zhiyu
7
Immortal Officials of Happiness, Wealth, and Longevity Gather in Celebration (Zhu Youdun)
128n71
Imperial Capital Writing Society (Yujing shuhui)
76n27
In Breeze and Moonlight Zhao Pan’er Saves Sister Song from the Windy Dust. See Saved from the Windy Dust
Injustice Requited with Injustice: The Orphan of Zhao (Yuan bao yuan Zhaoshi guer)
284
“Inscribing a Painting of Wang Zhaojun Going Beyond the Border” (Putian le ti Zhaojun chu sai tu; Zhang Kejiu)
136n99
In Wind and Moon Zhao Pan’er Saves a Sister from the Wind and Dust (Zhao Paner fengyue jiu fengchen; Guan Hanqing). See Saved from the Windy Dust
Jade Mirror Stand (Yu jingtai; Guan Hanqing)
18n48
Jewel Box (Baibao xiang; Feng Menglong)
273
Jia Wu
33n13
Jia Yi
44n43
Jia Zhongming
107, 110, 178, 258, 259
Jiezhi Tui
157n34
Ji Junxiang
57, 63, 284
Jin (Jurchen) dynasty
14, 65–105, 273
farces in
282, 283
in Opts for the Wrong Career
69
in Purple Clouds
112, 113
and Shi Junbao
106–107
Journey to the West (Xiyou ji)
124n56
Kong Shangren
272
La Dame aux camélias (Alexandre Dumas)
276
Lam, Ling Hon
104n96
Lan Caihe
46n51
Lance Thrice Seized (San duo shuo)
287
Lan Liming
187, 245n47
Laolaizi
88n62
Laozi
198n39
Lechang, Princess
282
Legend of the Flying Dragon (Feilong zhuan)
17n47
Letters from the Central Plain (Zhongzhou qizha; Wu Hongdao)
109
Li Gongzuo
134n90
Li Haogu
25n75
Li Kaixian
113–114
Li Kuanfu
285
Li Longji (Tang Xuanzong)
127n71, 280
Li Miaohui
41
Lin Shu
276
Li Shangyin
58n78
Li Shen
10n28
Li Shishi
123n53
Li Shizhi
122n51
Little Butcher Sun (Bound and Strung Up, Out of Luck: Little Sun the Butcher; Pendiao moxing Xiao Suntu)
66, 76n27
Liu and Ruan of the Jin Dyansty Wrongly Enter the Peach Springs (Jin Liu Ruan wuru Taoyuan; Wang Ziyi)
26n76
Liu Bang
86n49
Liu Bei
240n36
Liu Chang Wrongly Turns His Back on His Wife (Liu Cheng cuo bei qi)
100n90
Liu Chen
160n48, 248n53
Liu Fu
25n74
Liu Qiqing: Poetry and Wine at the Tower for Enjoying the River. See Tower for Enjoying the River
Liu Xuande
284
Liu Yong (in Xie Tianxiang, Tower for Enjoying the River)
14, 27, 78n38, 171n75, 172n81, 181–185, 258, 262–264, 281
Liu Yuxi
10n28
Li Wa. See “Story of Li Wa”
Li Wan
133n88
Li Xiangjun (in Peach Blossom Fan)
272
Li Yaxian (in Serpentine Pond)
146–147, 148, 151–152, 241n37, 270, 272
“Li Yaxian: Flowers and Wine and the Serpentine Pond.” See Serpentine Pond
Li Yu
17n47, 266n18, 272
Li Zhifu
67–68
Load of Cinnabar: The Story of Dripping Water Forming Bubbles (Zhusha dan dishui fu ou ji)
286
Lü, Empress
86n49
Luan City Posthouse (Luanchengyi)
281
Lu Di
82n45
Lü Mengzheng Braves a Winter Storm in a Broken-down Kiln (Lü Mengzheng fengxue poyao ji)
283–284
Luo Di
86n50
Lü Wang (Grand Duke Jiang)
124n54
Lu Zhi
6
madam characters
3, 13–14, 26, 64, 181
in Purple Clouds
108, 111, 112, 113
in Saved from the Windy Dust
225, 227
in Serpentine Pond
113, 149, 151, 152, 156n33
in Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story
29, 30, 36–37, 41, 58
marriage
4, 16n44, 102n94, 270–271, 274
in Saved from the Windy Dust
225, 226
and status
3, 5, 15, 18, 21, 120n40, 150, 181
in “Tale of Li Wa”
14
Ma Zhiyuan
26n76, 41n32, 74, 179, 285
Meeting of Cloud and Wind (Fengyun hui; Li Yu)
17n47
Mei Dingzuo
28–29, 270
Mencius
286
Mencius
198n41, 220n81
Meng Chengxun
109
Meng Jiangnü
172n80
Meng Jiangnü Brings Winter Clothing from a Thousand Miles Away (Meng Jiangnü qianli song hanyi)
277
Meng Qi
279
merchants
1, 11n34, 13–14, 26, 30, 273, 274
in Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story
29, 30, 37, 41, 62, 63, 64
See also Feng Kui
Ming dynasty
64, 271–272
Minister Yi Supports King Tang (Yiyin fu Tang)
287
Miscellaneous Notes from the Blue Basket (Qingxiang zaji)
142n120
Mongolian language
85n48
Mongols
180
See also Yuan dynasty
Monk Hong, A Letter Wrongly Delivered (Hong He cuo xiashu)
283
Mother Meng Moves Thrice (Mengmu san yi)
286
Mu, Duke of Qin
221n84
Nanci xulu (Xu Wei)
277, 281
Neo-Confucianism
3, 64, 272
Newly Compiled Register of Ghosts (Xinbian Lugui bu; You Zhenqi)
110
See also Register of Ghosts
New Songs from the Jade Terrace (Yutai xinyong jianzhu)
42
“Night Rain on Ba Mountain” (Bashan yeyu; Li Shangyin)
58n78
Ning Xiyuan
114
Northern plays (zaju)
14, 62, 100
and chuanqi
272
female actors in
275
female leads in
58n77, 63, 71–72, 76, 83–84, 111, 115, 126n67, 146, 179, 188n23, 231n13
in Jin dynasty
65
and Opts for the Wrong Career
68, 72–75
and Purple Clouds
109, 112, 113
singing leads in
71–72, 77n29, 112, 114, 115, 262, 271, 279
vs. Southern plays
69–75, 86n51, 87n54
Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story in
29, 57, 62–63, 67
novels
274–275, 276
Oil Peddler Conquers the Finest Flower (Maiyoulang duzhan huakui; Feng Menglong)
273
Old Affairs from the Xuanhe Era (Yuanhe yishi)
128n74
Old Zaju Drama (Gu zaju; Wang Jide)
151, 152, 187
Opts for the Wrong Career. See Playboy from a Noble House Opts for the Wrong Career
Orphan of Zhao (Zhaoshi gu’er; Ji Junxiang)
63n94
Ouyang Xun
285
Pang Juan
82n45, 125n59
Pan Yue
22n66
“Parting from Zhu Lianxiu” (Bie Zhu Lianxiu; Lu Zhi)
6
Pavilion of Bitter Cold (Kuhan ting)
170n71
Pavilion of Purple Clouds (Ziyun ting; Dai Shanfu)
110
Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan; Kong Shangren)
272
“Peach Blossom Spring” (Taohua yuan; Tao Yuanming)
160n48, 248n53
Pei Shaojun
283
Perfume Sachet Grief (Xiangnang yuan; Zhu Youdun)
73, 75, 270
“Persuading a Singsong Girl to Go Straight” (Tang Shi)
15–18
Pingyang (Shanxi)
67, 106, 111
Playboy from a Noble House Opts for the Wrong Career (Huanmen zidi cuo li shen)
14, 21
authorship of
69
date of
75
editions of
66
lists of plays in
73–75, 87–88, 277–287
Northern and Southern features in
69–72, 74–75
plot of
67–68
and Purple Clouds
111, 112, 113, 129n78
role types in
71–72, 73
songs and text in
72–73
Plays by Famous Masters of Former Times (Gu mingjia zaju)
226, 227
Plum in a Golden Vase (Jinpingmei)
274
“Poem on Prince Teng’s Gallery” (Wang Bo)
131n86
Poems Based in Facts (Benshi shi; Meng Qi)
279, 282
Precious Mirror of Classified Flowers (Pinhua baojian; Chen Sen)
275
Prefect Qian Cleverly Dotes on Xie Tianxiang (Guan Hanqing). See Xie Tianxiang
Prince of Xin’an Condemns and Confiscates the Tea-Trading Boat (zaju; Xin’an wang duanmo fancha chuan; Wang Shifu or Ji Junxiang)
57
puns
155n28, 158n42, 165n58, 165n61, 185
Purple Clouds (All-Keys-and-Modes: Wind and Moon in the Courtyard of Purple Clouds; Zhugongdiao tiao fengyue ziyun ting; Shi Junbao)
14, 21, 68, 71, 106–145
authorship of
108–111
editions of
113–115
plot of
111–113
and Tower for Enjoying the River
258–259
qi
197n38
Qian Ke (in Xie Tianxiang)
181, 185–186, 190n30
Qian Nanyang
66, 93n69, 277, 281, 283
Qiao Ji
50, 106n2
Qing dynasty
271–272, 275
Qingping shantang huaben (Liushijia xiaoshuo; Hong Bian)
262–263, 264
“Qiu Hu, Grandee of Lu, Tries to Seduce His Own Wife” (Lu daifu Qiu Hu xiqi; Shi Junbao)
107, 108, 280
Qi Xiaofeng
40
Qu Yuan
229n10
Raising Question in the Place of Wind and Moon: The Story of Ruyang
51–57
Record of Liu Qiqing’s Pleasures of Wine and Poetry in the Tower for Enjoying the River. See Tower for Enjoying the River
“Record of Music” (Yueji)
197n38
Record of Rites (Liji)
197n38
Record of the Golden Cash (Jinqian ji; Qiao Ji or Shi Junbao)
106n2
Record of the Millet Dream (Mengliang lu)
244n44
Record of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo zhi)
119, 240n36
Record of the Three Qin (San Qin ji)
142n118
“Record of Yueyang Tower” (Yueyanglou ji; Fan Zhongyan)
198n40
Records of the Northern Quarter (Beili zhi)
2
Record While Breaking from Plowing (Nancun zhuogeng lu; Tao Zongyi)
6–7, 75
Red Chamber Dream (Honglou meng; Cao Xueqin)
274–275
Register of Ghosts (Lugui bu; Zhong Sicheng)
50n65, 279, 281, 284
editions of
110, 151, 186, 258
on Guan Hanqing
26n78, 178, 179
on Opts for the Wrong Career
68, 70, 75
on Purple Clouds
106, 107, 108–109, 110
on Saved from the Windy Dust
225–226
on Tower for Enjoying the River
258–259
on Xie Tianxiang
186–187
Reproduced Fine Editions of China (Zhonghua zaizao shanben congshu)
114
Rescriptor-in-Waiting Bao in Wind and Snow (Fengxue Bao daizhi)
100n89
Rescriptor-in-Waiting Bao Travels to Chenzhou to Issue Rice (Bao daizhi shang Chenzhou tiaomi)
285–286
Reunion of Mandarin Ducks, Daughter of the Zhuo Family (Yuanyanghui Zhuo shinü)
278
Rhapsody on Autumn Emotions (Qiu xing fu; Pan Yue)
23n66
“Rhapsody on the High Terrace” (Gaotang fu; Song Yu)
54n70
Ruan Xiu
46n51
Ruan Zhao
160n48, 248n53
sanqu songs
1–27, 62, 73, 109, 270
Huangzhong mode in
63
Nandiao mode in
238
Nangong mode in
70–71
Nanlü mode in
15
northern modes in
70–71
and qu lyrics
15, 43n34, 50n65, 180
in Serpentine Pond
147, 148, 150
Shangjiao mode in
205
Shuangdiao mode in
12, 141, 148n5, 149n7, 150n10, 254
Xianlü mode in
18, 190, 229
Yuediao mode in
18, 96, 149n9
Zhenggong mode in
245
Zhonglü mode in
25, 57, 58, 62, 132
Saved from the Windy Dust (Jiu fengchen; Guan Hanqing)
14, 24, 181, 225–257, 270
editions of
225–227
plot of
225
Selection of Yuan Plays (Yuanqu xuan; Zang Maoxun)
151–152, 187, 280, 282
Saved from the Windy Dust in
226, 227, 229n10, 243n41, 250n59
Serpentine Pond in
288–290
“Sending Off Yuan the Second on his Mission to Anxi” (Song Yuan Er shi Xi’an; Wang Wei)
117n28
“Sent to Slave Li” (Zeng Li nubei; Xia Tingzhi)
12
Serpentine Pond (“Li Yaxian: Flowers and Wine and the Serpentine Pond”; Li Yaxian huajiu Qujian chi; Shi Junbao)
14, 15, 21, 24, 107, 146–177, 270
editions of
151–152
and Purple Clouds
108, 111, 112–113, 129n78, 132n87, 134n91, 137n101
Zang Maoxun’s ending for
288–290
Seven Military Classics (Qi wujing)
124n54
sexuality
2–3, 13–14, 108, 113, 122n49, 183n11, 265n15
metaphors for
8n18, 15n41, 31n7, 50n63, 54n70, 117n30, 168n65
Shang Dao
42n34
Shanghai
272, 275–276
Shang Zhengshu
42
Shang Zhongxian
25n74, 25n75, 277, 280, 287
Shao Ping
44n45
She Kills a Dog to Set Her Husband Straight (Shagou quanfu)
282
Shen He
69–70, 282
Shen Yue
158n42
Shi Junbao
14, 68, 106–145, 146–177, 270, 280
Shizhan Deyu (Shi Junbao)
106–107
short stories
263, 273–274
Shuang Jian. See Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story
Shuowen
133n88
Shuwang (king of Shu)
176n89
Sima Guang
82n45
Sima Xiangru
32n12, 278
“Singsong Girl” (Jinü; Song Fanghu)
7–9
Singsong Girl Again (Fu luo chang; Zhu Youdun)
271
singsong girls (performer-prostitutes; ji)
court
20
guilds of
3, 13, 154n23, 185, 188, 265
names of
4
as prostitutes
1, 2, 3, 7–8, 12
skills of
5–6, 113
in student-courtesan romances
1–27
types of
1–3
Six Arts
125n63
Six Tactics (Liu tao; Lü Wang)
123n54
Song dynasty
1, 2–3, 25n74, 77n30, 123n53, 124n54, 128n74, 141n114, 264
Song Fanghu
7–9, 63
“Song of Eight Immortals in Their Cups” (Yinzhong baxian ge; Du Fu)
122n51
“Song of the Pipa” (Pipa xing; Bai Juyi)
29, 38n24, 41, 135n93, 148
“Song of White Hair” (baitou yin; Zhuo Wenjun)
32n12
songs
librettos for
114
major
211n67
Northern vs. Southern
69–70
in Opts for the Wrong Career
69–72
in Purple Clouds
115
rhyming patterns in
70–71
See also ci lyrics; sanqu songs
Song Yinzhang (in Saved from the Windy Dust)
225, 226, 270
Song Yu
54n70
Southern plays (xiwen)
29n2, 57, 60n83, 64
vs. Northern plays
69–75, 86n51, 87n54
and Opts for the Wrong Career
14, 66, 68–75
and Purple Clouds
112, 113
singing leads in
112
student-courtesan theme in
271–272
Southern Song dynasty
69
Southern Tang dynasty
266n18
status
of actors
4, 179–180
and marriage
3, 5, 15, 18, 21, 120n40, 150, 181
and social mobility
12–13
Stories of Lotus Flowers From the Black Muck (Qingni lianhua ji; Mei Dingzuo)
28–29, 270
“Story of Li Wa” (Li Wa zhuan; Bai Xingjian)
2n2, 14, 97n83, 132n87, 134n91, 241n37
and Serpentine Pond
146–147, 150
Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji; Wang Shifu)
281–282
“Story of Yueniang” (Yueniang ji; Liu Fu)
25n74
Student Zhang Boils the Sea (Zhangsheng zhuhai; Li Haogu)
25n75
Sun Bin
125n59
Sun He
186
Sun Jichang
73, 278
Sun Kaidi
106
Su Qin
44n43
Su Shi
43n41, 141n114
Su Shi Drunkenly Writes the Red Cliff Rhapsody (Su Zizhan zuixie Chibi fu)
141n114, 205n52
Su Shi is Banished to Huangzhou in a Snowstorm (Su Zizhan fengxue bian Huangzhou; Fei Tangchen)
141n114
Su Xiao
10, 42
Su Xiaoqing and Shuang Jian: The Tea-Trading Boat (Su Xiaoqing Shuang Jian fancha chuan)
57
Su Xiaoqing On a Moonlit Night in a Tea-Trading Boat (Su Xiaoqing yueye fancha chuan; song suite)
57–62
Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story
10, 15n41, 26, 27, 28–64, 159n46, 270
and Serpentine Pond
150
Su Xiaoxiao
19, 41–42
Tang, King
287
Tang dynasty
22n63, 23n67, 26n77, 96n76, 127n71, 150, 280
student-courtesan theme in
1–2
See also “Story of Li Wa”
Tang Shi
15–18
Tang Xianzu
134n90
Tao Qian
61, 248n53
Tao Yuanming
160n48
Tao Zongyi
6, 75, 99n88
Tears on the Blue Gown (Qingshan lei; Ma Zhiyuan)
41n32
Thirty Zaju plays in Yuan Editions (Yuankan zaju sanshizhong)
113–114
“Thoughts of Love”
25–26
“Three Stanzas on The Serpentine Pond: Each Stanza Has Five Lines” (Qujiang sanzhang; zhang wuju; Du Fu)
46n50
Three Strategems (Sanlüe)
124n54
Three Words (Sanyan; Feng Menglong)
273
Thunder Destroys the Jianfu Stele (Leihong jian-fu bei)
285
Together Again (Liang tuanyuan)
57
Tong Yangzhong
278
Top Graduate Zhang Xie (Zhang Xie zhuangyuan)
66, 70, 74, 282
Tower for Enjoying the River (Wanjiang lou; Record of Liu Qiqing’s Pleasures of Wine and Poetry in the Tower for Enjoying the River)
258–269, 281
“Two Gentlemen Again Matched the Rhymes of My Poem and I Again Answered Them” (Ergong zaihe yi zai dazhi; Su Shi)
43n41
Under the Southern Bough (Nanke ji; Tang Xianzu)
134n90
Van Gulik, Robert
131n84
“Waking Up to Reality” (Zhao Yanhui)
21–24
Wang Anshi
141n114
Wang Bo
131n86
Wang Gang
109
Wang Guowei
110
Wang Jide
151, 187
Wang Jinbang (in Opts for the Wrong Career)
67, 76–105
Wang Junmin (Wang Kui)
60n83, 277
Wang Shifu
57, 62, 281–282, 284
Wang Wei
117n28
Wang Xianzhi
38n25
Wang Ye
50n65
Wang Yudai
20
Wang Yun
106, 107
Wang Zhaojun
74, 136n99
Wang Zhongwen
283
Wang Ziyi
26n76
Wanyan Yanshouma (in Opts for the Wrong Career)
67, 74, 76–105
Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan)
74
Water Snails and the Leading Male (Luosi moni)
287
Wei Daodao
145n128
Wei Gao
17
Wei Xiuren
275
Wen Qiao
18n48
“Willow Green Woman” (song; Liu Qingniang)
156n33
Writing Club of the Jade Capital (Yujing shuhui)
101n92
Writing Society of Hangzhou (gu Hang shuhui)
76n27
Wu Changling
107, 141n114
Wu Daozi
128n71
Wu Hongdao
109
Wu Youxu
44n44
Wu Zetian
44n44
Xiao He
82n45, 86n49
Xiao Shi and Nongyu
48n56
Xia Tingzhi
4, 7n16, 12–13, 62
Xie Daoyun
10
Xie Tianxiang
27, 172n81
Xie Tianxiang (Grand Prefect Qian Wisely Dotes on Xie Tianxiang; Qian dayin zhi chong Xie Tianxiang; Guan Hanqing)
14–15, 24, 178–224, 258
background to
181–185
editions of
186–187
plot of
185–186
Xuanzong Emperor (Tang)
127n71, 280
Xue Qiongying
17
Xue Tao
10
Xue Yunqing’s Ghost Acts the Matchmaker (Xue Yunqing gui zuo mei; Emerging from her Image, Yunqing’s Ghost Acts the Matchmaker)
277–278
Xu Lin
272
Xu Qinjun
114
Xu Wei
277, 281
Xu Yuanchong
282
Xu Zheng
114
Yan Dunyi
26n76, 106n2, 284
Yang Guifei
280
Yang Lizhai
42, 43n40
Yang Shi and the Embroidered Perfume Sachet (chuanqi; Yang Shi jin xiangnang)
88n60
Yang Xian
258
Yang Xianzhi
87n57, 278–279
Yang Yu’e
43n39
Yan Hui
229n10
Yan Jidao
123n52
Yao Pinwen
180
Ye Gongchuo
66
Yin and Yang
169n69
Yi Yin
287
Yongle dadian (Grand Compendium of the Yongle Reign)
57, 277, 282
Opts for the Wrong Career in
66
Su Xiaoqing-Shuang Jian story in
30, 37n23
You Zhenqi
110
Yuan drama
3–4, 88n60, 113–114, 115, 281, 282, 283
Yuan dynasty
3–4, 69, 76n27, 150, 272
Yuan Haowen
43n34, 46n49, 127n70, 134n93
Yuan Mingshan (Pucha, Li the Fifth)
68
Yu Tianxi
281
Yu Wuling
116n27
Yu Xiaogu
187
“Zaju Plays composed by the Collected Blossoms [of Playwrights]” (Qunying suobian zaju; Zhu Quan)
109
Zang Maoxun
151–152, 158n42, 187, 234n23, 241n38, 254n66, 288–290
Zhang, Eileen
276
Zhang, Jade Lotus
4–5
Zhang Chang
204n50, 210n64
Zhang Fei
240n36
Zhang Kejiu
136n99
Zhang Liang
124n54
Zhang Wuniu
42
Zhao Jingshen
62
Zhao Kuangyin (Song Taizu)
17n47
Zhao Mingdao
18–20
Zhao Pan’er (in Saved from the Windy Dust)
225, 226
Zhao Qimei
284
Zhao Shanlin
44n44, 45n49
Zhao Shuo
284
Zhao Wenjing
68
Zhao Yanduan
145n127
Zhao Yanhui
21–24
Zhao Yunning
57n75
Zheng Guangzu
179
Zheng Qian
114, 115, 126n68, 152
Zheng Tingyu
277, 281
Zheng Yuanhe (in Serpentine Pond)
147–149, 152, 272
Zheng Zhenduo
30n4
Zhong Kui
127n71
Zhong Sicheng
70, 108, 109, 178
Zhou Bangyan
123n53
Zhou Bo
279
Zhou She (in Saved from the Windy Dust)
225, 226
Zhou Yuexian: Storm Shatters the Clear Moon Ford (Zhou Yuexian: fengpo Mingyue du)
259
Zhuang Yifu
281, 286–287
Zhu Kai
50n65
Zhu Lianxiu (Beautiful gem blinds)
6–7
Zhu Maichen
99n86
Zhuo Wenjun
32n12
Zhu Quan
75, 109, 180, 187
Zhu Tingyu
9
Zhu Xi
82n45
Zhu Youdun
73, 75, 128n71, 147n4, 151, 270, 271
Zuozhuan
78n36