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Author : Xianzu Tang
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253340979
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xianzu Tang and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated translation of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, in an updated edition
Author : Xianzu Tang
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
ISBN 13 : 9780887272066
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xianzu Tang and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 1994 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly 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 : Xianzu Tang
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215277
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition written by Xianzu Tang and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Xianzu Tang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789576290381
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xianzu Tang and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xianzu Tang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787563703661
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xianzu Tang and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : 汤显祖
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787511031785
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)
Download or read book 牡丹亭 written by 汤显祖 and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408811790
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Peony in Love written by Lisa See and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peony 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 : Xiaoping Yen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966542127
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Peony Pavilion written by Xiaoping Yen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixteen-year-old girl visits a forbidden garden and falls in love with a young man she meets in a dream. She has an affair with her dream-lover and dies longing for him. After her death, her unflagging spirit continues to wait for her dream-lover. Does her lover really exists? Can a youthful love born of a garden dream ever blossom? Based upon a famous sixteen-century Chinese opera written by Tang Xianzu, 'the Shakespeare of China', the novel leads the reader into a mythical world of passion and romance. Its many fascinating characters include a failed scholar, a Taoist nun, a husband and wife rebel team, a dissolute emperor, and Tartar invaders from the North.
Author : D. Lei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230300421
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization written by D. Lei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing 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 : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453263535
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Peony written by Pearl S. Buck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Chinese woman falls in love with a Jewish man in nineteenth-century China in this evocative novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth century, assimilation has begun taking its toll on their small enclave. When Peony and the family’s son, David, grow up and fall in love with one another, they face strong opposition from every side. Tradition forbids the marriage, and the family already has a rabbi’s daughter in mind for David. Long celebrated for its subtle and even-handed treatment of colliding traditions, Peony is an engaging coming-of-age story about love, identity, and the tragedy and beauty found at the intersection of two disparate cultures. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136290222
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700 written by Daria Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring 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
ISBN 13 : 1472583434
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China written by Tian Yuan Tan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Ronald R. Gray
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645825
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Reading Dream of the Red Chamber written by Ronald R. Gray and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 0028670973
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion" written by Gale, Cengage and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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 : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804723596
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Teachers of the Inner Chambers written by Dorothy Ko and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Ann A. Pang-White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350046140
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Readings in Chinese Women’s Philosophical and Feminist Thought written by Ann A. Pang-White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Chinese Women's Philosophical and Feminist Thought gathers 40 original writings on women by 32 authors (many of whom are women) from the Yuan dynasty to the Republics, an important 700-year historical period during which women's learning in China blossomed as a result of economic prosperity, the development of commercial printing, and the interaction between East and West. Selections are made not only from canonical texts on women's virtues, but also from less orthodox literary works such as plays, poetry, novels, essays, and revolutionary writings that illuminate the lived experience of women and the perception of gender. With many texts translated into English for the first time, this reader provides the context needed to understand them. It features: - Chronologically organized readings in the sequence of the Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties, and the Republics to demonstrate historical progression of thought (or the lack of) - Introductions to each section and chapter covering essential information about the authors and the cultural, historical, and philosophical background to their work - A chronology of dynasties, Republics, key events, and a map Recovering discourse so often neglected in discussion of Chinese thought, this is the first collection to pay special attention to women-authored works from the late 13th to the early 21st century. By bringing these readings together in a single volume, it juxtaposes and compares female and male perspectives from the same time and creates a new narrative of Chinese philosophical thought.
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Author : Sara E. Quay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313071675
Total Pages : 1083 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Cultural History of Reading [2 volumes] written by Sara E. Quay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 1083 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
