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...steamship crossed the Pacific, Mei Lan-fang's tender, childlike visage belied the mature perplexities that crowded his small head. The difficulties in presenting Chinese drama to an Occidental public are considerable. For Chinese drama is not Classic or Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric???it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds...
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