- In Memory of Catherine “Kate” Stevens 1927–2016
Footnotes
1. Kate Stevens, The Globe and Mail, May 21, 2016.
2. Vibeke Børdahl and Kathryn Lowry, “Letter from the Editors,” CHINOPERL Papers 27 (2007): vi.
3. The collection is documented in “Chinese Folk Entertainment: A Collection of Tapes with Matching Texts,” CHINOPERL Papers 4.1 (1974). The texts seem to survive in the Harvard University library system, but not the tapes.
4. Her dissertation, “Peking Drumsinging,” Harvard University, 1972, is still required reading for research on drum song performance.
5. Since the special issue in 2007, Kate Stevens published the annotated translation “An Excerpt from Journey to the West in Fast Bamboo Clapper-Style Tale,” in The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, eds. Victor Mair and Mark Bender (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. 420–28.