Liu Zengfu as One of the Last Connoisseurs of Jingju (Peking Opera)

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Notes

¹ Readers may be interested in an article I published in Chinese in commemoration of Professor Liu, Xu Peng 徐芃, “Liu Zengfu xiansheng de changci zhi xue” 劉曾復先生的唱詞之學 (Mr. Liu Zengfu on Jingju aria texts), Zhongguo xiqu xueyuan xuebao 中國戲曲學院學報 (Journal of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts) 2014.3: 3–6.

² Jiang Jun 姜駿, ed., Liu Zengfu jiaoshou shuoxi wengao 劉曾復教授說戲文稿 (Transcriptions of Professor Liu Zengfu's transmission of plays; Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue, forthcoming).

³ He published many well-regarded books on lianpu, all graced with his own renderings of the patterns.

⁴ A second monograph by Professor Liu was published in 2012, Jingju Shuoyuan 京劇說苑 (The Garden of Stories of Jingju; like the first monograph, this one also makes use of the title of a collection of stories by the great Han dynasty bibliophile and editor, Liu Xiang 劉向 [77–6]). A collection of Professor Liu's shorter pieces on Jingju is also available: Lou Yue 婁悅, ed., Liu Zengfu Jingju wencun 劉曾復京劇文存 (Writings on Jingju by Liu Zengfu; Beijing: Xueyuan chuban she, 2013).