ILLUSTRATIONS
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
