Proceedings at the Ninth Meeting (1977) of the Conference

PROCEEDINGS AT THE NINTH MEETING (1977) OF THE CONFERENCE This meeting was organized by Richard Strassberg at Yale University. Hans Frankel presided over the three sessions, which were held in a lounge in the Hall of Graduate Studies. It was a great convenience for participants to be allowed to have most of their meals in the dining hall of the neighboring Davenport College. The Yale Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures gave a cocktail party, after which some forty persons went to the Frankels' house for a sumptuous Chinese dinner. This was followed by the usual "oral and performing" Frolic in which the high point was dancing by Ch'ung-ho Frankel and Sophia Delza. The program included the following items: Frederic Lieberman (U. of Washington): Text and Music in Kt-ch'in Songs Parker Huang (Yale): The Chanting of Chinese Poetry Charles Wivell (U. of Rochester): Folklore Motifs and Narrative Transformation *Sophia Delza (New York): on Revolutionary the Aesthetics Peking Opera: of Change Perspectives Rulan Pien (Harvard): Narrative Contexts: Ballads of Korea, Japan and Hong Kong Bell Yung (Cornell): Cantonese Storytelling in Hong Kong *Chun-kin Leung (Toronto): Notes on Cantonese Opera in North America Kwangwei Liu (City U. of N.Y.): Symbolism in Chinese Drama Rulan Pien (Harvard): Report on Teaching 'Music in the Chinese Context' Tape-listening Session * Reproduced below 8 ...