ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
For the purpose of giving a vivid impression of the colorfulness of the Chinese stage, the publishers have imported from China four thousand paintings on silk, done by students of the Peking School of Fine Arts. They represent four of the standing character type of the Chinese stage, in their traditional make-ups.
A General Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
A Scholar 52
A Demi-Mondaine 152
A Clown 206
Illustration by a Chinese artist for “The Chalk Circle” 28
Illustration by a Chinese artist for “The Chalk Circle” 32
Illustration by a Chinese artist. Tou-E before the judge 38
Illustration by a Chinese artist. Tou-E about to be beheaded 40
A Chinese artist’s conception of two pious souls 48
Warrior-acrobats 80
Amateur actors in an old-style Chinese play 110
Hu Shih 118
A typical Peking audience with the inevitable teapots 130
Orchestral instruments 146
Orchestral instruments 148
The actress Kin Feng-Kui in a male rôle 164
Mei Lan-fang in European dress, and in parts 176
“Burying the Blossoms” 180
The Fortune Theater 198
A typical Peking theater 198
The orchestra seated in a corner of the stage 202
THE CHINESE THEATER
