City of the Dead and Song of the Night

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Notes

1 Gao Xingjian, Ballade Nocturne, Claire Conceison, tr. (Paris: Center for Writers and Translators, The American University of Paris and London: Sylph Editions, 2010), no. 13 in The Cahiers Series.

2 For a recent translation see “Zhuang Zhou Drums on a Bowl and Attains the Great Dao,” in Feng Menglong, comp., Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2, Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang, trs. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005), pp. 21–32.

3 See “Fanning the Grave” and “The Wife Tested,” in George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-Four Beads, A Collection of Songs, Ballads, etc. (London: Trübner and Co., 1874), pp. 6–21; Chunshuzhai, “The Butterfly Dream” and Anonymous, “The Precious Scroll of Master Zhuang's Butterfly Dream and Skeleton,” in Wilt L. Idema, The Resurrected Skeleton from Zhuangzi to Lu Xun, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp. 195–254.