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III! t 111 5HAKIto:,1 r*- than 2,-00 years before the Curisv.an «r», 11»« Chinese *.?« hi to ha\ m j r p. j»*o*mh1 * govern incut superintend*: a r ofmush . and the traditionary ou.lrc.^ lion of the ode* of the Bhib King from*,tlirv IOUSIC 111 M-teTH Of It* |»fOVlOCW« 1 joarrlei us tuck to day* when Ideas of| oducaltoLi am! music wero an loihasoiU-tile im among Him early (Irteks. How far I obdnl (lnucas c a symbolic character || (m.i’ll a* the Pyrrhic of tbs Ur*^kM ; x cuuirlbut**d to create (h« ChiDomt dramano not imk ; certain it Is that at a \ Jrr;y %r\y ditto the Chin use isism-ssed • , symbolic danCoe representing me labors j, Of tillage, the Joys of h.-.cvtM, the j fatigues of war. ,»viig th»*no rudo beginnings of the f Chinese theatre out of Bight. the history , of the regular drama In China inn becu ‘, d 1 mind in-o three pe.lodH eorrespoud1, lug r.*s|.e« lively with the piece* com-1 lm •! under the 1’stig dyiiae'y (A 1». *| TJIMMIS), the not g dynasty lt;b*Vi-nPJ), i, Mud the dynasty of the Km aud \oueu , (1124-nil) TIim piece* coii*posed under HIM last are known by the Louies of Yoanopen'* and Tsa kl: and H is from a draoiat.c anthology called the •Youeu jiu-pu rchong, or Hundred , Plays entupumsl uuder the Youen, that ji the plays at present translated into , K ir.ip* an languages have been inaloly . solocUfd. Tue Urge number of dramatic authors and plays m China may be ', MStlma'cd froir the fact that theCbtneeol Hot uf draaiallc authors under the V men dynasty r.iutiiinselghty opuUia.e drsiuallsie, to whom 41“. play s are atm « bulcd, in addition to KiBpla. solanonymous aii'liershlp, and eleven attributed11 court* s *nn |
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Wilmington Daily Republican

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Tue, Nov 17, 1885

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