Stephen H West

Biographic Data

ID1247832
NAMEStephen H West
GIVEN NAMESStephen H
FAMILY NAMEWest
SIGNATUREWEST S H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain

    Open AccessJohn Beusterien, Stephen H West et al.BOOKElephants and Ivory in China and…2025

    The Element provides a global history of ivory and elephants, acknowledging the individuality and dignity of the elephants that provided that ivory. Sections on China include the first translations of texts about the cultural importance of elephants and ivory in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and an examination of an ivory stave (huban 笏板), crafted from an Asian elephant tusk (Elephas maximus), carried by officials in court and other formal rituals.…

  • The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature

    Ruth W Dunnell, Qui Chuji et al.BOOKDaoist Master Changchun's Journey…2023

  • Autumn Thoughts”

    Stephen H WestARTICLEEarly Medieval China2021

    The famous short sanqu lyric known as “Autumn Thoughts” to the tune “Tianjing sha” has been attributed to Ma Zhiyuan since the late sixteenth century. Despite the skepticism of a long list of important qu scholars from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, this attribution is still repeated in textbooks from grade school to doctoral programs. A careful examination of extant versions from 1309 onward shows some degree of difference, from narrow…

  • Zhong Kui at Work

    Wilt L Idema, Stephen H WestARTICLEJournal of Chinese Religions2016

    The development of the legend of Zhong Kui 鍾馗 can be traced in considerable detail from the Tang dynasty onward. As a demon-chaser Zhong Kui came to play a major role in the Nuo 儺 ceremonies of New Year's Eve. This article presents a complete translation of a script for such a Nuo ceremony at the palace of the Prince of Zhou 周王 in the early decades of the fifteenth century composed as a zaju 雜劇 play by Zhu Youdun 朱有燉 (1379–1439). The play, here t…

  • Courtly cultures

    Open AccessPatrick J Geary, Daud Ali et al.CHAPTERCambridge World History2015

  • The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays

    Stephen H West, Wilt L IdemaBOOKThe Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan…2014

  • The Generals of the Yang Family

    Wilt L Idema, Stephen H WestBOOKThe Generals of the Yang Family2013

  • Battles, betrayals, and brotherhood

    Wilt L Idema, Stephen H WestBOOKBattles, betrayals, and brotherhood2012

    Liu, Guan, and Zhang: the tripartite oath of brotherhood in the peach orchard / Anonymous -- In the Hall of Brocade Clouds: the beauty and the story of interlocking rings / by Zhu Youdun -- Guan Yunchang's righteous and brave refusal of gold / by Anonymous -- Liu Xuande goes alone to the Xiangyang meeting / by Anonymous -- Zhuge Liang burns the stores at Bowang, Thirty Yuan plays, ed. 306, Ming Palace ed., Act 4 / by Guan Hanqing -- The great Kin…

  • Time Management And Self-Control

    Stephen H WestCHAPTERText, performance, and gender in…2010

    The focus of self-fashioning in the West is clearly on the issue of creating an autonomous subject, but in China it is much more of a case of building a sodality of culture. This chapter attempts to demonstrate that the social and cultural prestige that normally accrued to the ethical meritocracy, the literati, came under duress during the late Song and Yuan eras. A Forest of Affairs has a long history of publication, the texts of which have been…

  • The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

    Open AccessStephen Owens, Martin Kern et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of Chinese…2010

    Volume 1: Introduction 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin 7. Literature from the Late Ji…

  • Autumn Sounds

    Stephen H WestARTICLEEarly Medieval China2005

    (2005). Autumn Sounds: Music to the Ears Ouyang Xiu's 'Fu on Autumn's Sounds' Early Medieval China: Vol. 2005, Essays in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of David R. Knechtges, pp. 73-99

  • Playing With Food

    Stephen H WestARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1997Cited by: 2

    L'une des caracteristiques communes des arts du spectacle et de la cuisine en Chine est que ce sont deux domaines dont les origines sont regionales. Sous les Song se developpent les deux formes majeures d'art dramatique : au nord, le zaju ou beiqu, au sud, le xiwen, ou nanxi, ou encore nanqu. Kaifeng, l'une des deux grandes villes commerciales de l'epoque est le lieux d'origine d'une cuisine specifiquement regionale. Cet article s'interesse aux c…

  • Sabine Werner, Die Belagerung von K’ai-feng im Winter 1126/27

    Stephen H WestARTICLET oung Pao1996

  • China under Jurchen rule

    Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Stephen H West et al.BOOKChina under Jurchen rule1995

  • The Moon and the Zither

    David T Roy, Stephen H West et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1995

  • The Classical Theatre and Art Song of South Fukien

    Stephen H West, Piet Van Der LoonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1994Cited by: 1

  • A Study in Appropriation

    Stephen H WestARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991Cited by: 1

    Much work on Yuan drama, based on the texts included in Zang Maoxun's Yuanqu xuan, does not deal with Yuan playscripts at all, but with later, literati revisions of the texts. The famous play Dou E yuan, for example, was extensively altered by Zang for inclusion in Yuanqu xuan. The present article undertakes a comparison of Zang's version of the play with an authentic, early text of the Gu mingjia edition. While Zang's version foregrounds the con…

  • Cilia, Scale and Bristle

    Stephen H WestARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1987

    Stephen H. West, Cilia, Scale and Bristle: The Consumption of Fish and Shellfish in The Eastern Capital of The Northern Song, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Dec., 1987), pp. 595-634

  • Notes on a Recent Handbook for Chinese Literature

    David R Knechtges, Taiping Chang et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1987

  • Chinese Theater, 1100-1450

    Dale Johnson, Dale R Johnson et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal1986

  • A Synchronic Chinese-Western Daily Calendar 1341-1661 A. D

    Stephen H West, Keith HazeltonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1986

  • Chilly Seas and East Flowing Rivers

    Stephen H WestARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1986

    Stephen H. West, Chilly Seas and East Flowing Rivers: Yüan Hao-wen's Poems of Death and Disorder, 1233-1235, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 106, No. 1, Sinological Studies Dedicated to Edward H. Schafer (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 197-210

  • The Interpretation of a Dream

    Stephen H WestARTICLET oung Pao1985

  • Chinese Theater 1100-1450

    Victor H Mair, Wilt L Idema et al.ARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1984

  • The Confiscation of Public Land in the Song Capital

    Stephen H WestARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1984