Excerpt from Studies in the Chinese Drama The Chinese drama must be judged by native standards. Unlike her Nipponese neighbour, China is not a borrowing nation. Her arts Of painting, calligraphy, literature, the theatre, et cetera, are indigenous, and can be received in their proper magnificence only when disassociated from the theories that control Western arts, from which they differ in purpose, in thesis, and in exposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.