''CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature'', formerly ''CHINOPERL Papers'' and ''CHINOPERL News'', is a peer-reviewed American academic journal dedicated to the study of Chinese

performing art The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which involve the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Pe ...

s like ''

quyi ''Quyi'' ("melodious art") and ''shuochang yishu'' ("speaking and singing art") are umbrella terms for over 300 regional genres of traditional Chinese oral performing arts. ''Quyi'' is distinguished from ''xiqu'' (Chinese opera) by its emphasis ...

'' and ''xiqu'' (

Chinese opera Traditional Chinese opera (), or ''Xiqu'', is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradually over more tha ...

). It is the only western-language journal devoted to this field. The acronym CHINOPERL for Chinese Oral and Performing Literature was coined by

Yuen Ren Chao Yuen Ren Chao (Chinese: 趙元任; 3 November 189225 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao ...

History

The CHINOPERL (Chinese Oral and Performing Literature) organization was founded in 1969 by a group of

sinologist Sinology, also referred to as China studies, is a subfield of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on China. It is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of the Chinese civilizatio ...

s which included

and his daughter Rulan Chao Pian, Nicholas Bodman, Milena Dolezelova, and

Wolfram Eberhard Wolfram Eberhard (March 17, 1909 – August 15, 1989) was a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies. Biography Born in Potsdam, German Empire, he had a str ...

, during a meeting at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. Its official publication was initially a newsletter titled ''CHINOPERL News''. In 1976 it became a journal titled ''CHINOPERL Papers'', and in 2013 it was renamed ''CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature'' when it first published under

Maney Publishing Maney Publishing was an independent academic publishing company that was taken over by Taylor & Francis in 2015. Maney Publishing specialised in peer-reviewed academic journals in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and health sc ...

. (Maney was purchased by

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in 2016.) In 2020, the

University of Hawaiʻi Press The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi. The University of Hawaiʻi Press was founded in 1947, publishing research in all disciplines of the humanities and natural and social sciences ...

began to publish this journal.

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English-language journals University of Hawaiʻi Press academic journals Chinese studies journals Academic journals established in 1969 Arts journals Chinese opera Chinese storytelling {{US-theat-stub

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