Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance

ISBN-13: 9780231101196 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 238 str.

Chieh-Yuan Tung; Jieyuan Dong; Li-Li Ch'en

Opis

This twelfth-century masterpiece suffered virtual oblivion from the late fourteenth century until 1912, when it was rediscovered by the great sinologist Wang Kuo-wei who helped restore it to its preeminent position in Chinese literature. Comprising 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, it is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831).