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Author: Xianzu Tang
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-03-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780253215277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a complete English translation of a great love story by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists. Cyril Birch and Catherine Swatek reflect upon contemporary performances of the play in light of its history.
Author: Lisa See
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-05-04
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1408811790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her own. Her father engages a theatrical troupe to perform scenes from The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese epic opera, in their garden amidst the scent of ginger, green tea and jasmine. 'Unmarried girls should not be seen in public,' says Peony's mother, but her father allows the women to watch from behind a screen. Here, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. So begins her unforgettable journey of love, desire, sorrow and redemption.
Author: Xianzu Tang
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780253340979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA celebrated translation of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, in an updated edition
Author: D. Lei
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0230300421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and thrive in the age of modernization and globalization. Building on her previous work, this new book focuses on various forms of Chinese 'opera' in locations around the Pacific Rim, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and California.
Author: Gale, Cengage
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2019-04-19
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 0028670973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Daria Berg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-24
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1136290222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.
Author: Tian Yuan Tan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-02-25
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1472583434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan gathered 20 scholars together to reflect on the theatrical practice of four hundred years ago and to ask: what does such an exploration mean culturally for us today? This ground-breaking study offers fresh insights into the respective theatrical worlds of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu and asks how the brave new theatres of 1616 may have a vital role to play in the intercultural dialogue of our own time.
Author: Xianzu Tang
Publisher: Cheng & Tsui
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780887272066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormerly banned in China, performed at New York's Lincoln Center, and named as an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice, The Peony Pavilion has an intriguingly diverse appeal.
Author: Ronald R. Gray
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-10-18
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1476645825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers a comprehensive introduction and overview to Honglou Meng, providing more than 200 alphabetical entries describing characters, key events and a wide range of topics, with discussion of important themes and narrative techniques. A brief biography of Cao is included, along with a history of Chinese and English critical receptions, an extensive bibliography and recommended reading.
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780804723596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in 17th-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in 17th-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional and intellectual worlds of 17th-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.
