Аннотация:This glossary was actually the brainchild of Professor James I. Crump, who started it back in the late 1950s, if memory serves me correctly.It was a project he called "The Capitol Dialect."I began collecting materials that might be used in a similar project in the early 1970s, but was distracted by my obsession with prosody and structure in the arias of the Yuanqu xuan and the Yuanqu xuan waibian; apart from cutting and pasting entries culled from some of the early works listed in the Osaka index, I made little progress.It was in the early 1980s after my work on prosody and structure was published that my mind again returned to the project.Jim Crump and I jointly applied for grants to fund it, but we were thwarted when financial support was not forthcoming.I then took up the project on my own.I have enjoyed Jim Crump's encouragement and support through all the intervening years, and he, probably more than any other person, is to be credited with persuading me to halt the entry gathering process in order to publish it.A more interested and loyal supporter one could not hope to have, and I owe him an enormous debt of
