The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi)

The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi) PDF

Author: Shifu Wang

Publisher: New York : Liveright Pub., Corporation

Published: 1936

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Based on an short story (thought to be autobiographical) written by Yuan Cheng, a poet of the eighth century. It tells of Ts'ui Ying-Ying, a young woman of extraordinary beauty with whom Mr Chang becomes infatuated after he rescues her and her mother from bandits.There are four parts, each with four so-called acts, and a "Continuation" (also four acts) which provides a happy ending and is believed to have been added at a later date. There is apparently a shorter version available, which would last about two and a quarter hours in performance.

Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance

Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance PDF

Author: Jieyuan Dong

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780231101196

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"Composed of 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831). But unlike the T'ang story, in which the lovers fail to marry each other, Master Tang's Western Chamber Romance ends with their wedding."--Cover.

The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi)

The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi) PDF

Author: S. I. Hsiung

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1000583597

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This play, first published in 1935, is a classic love story first written in the thirteenth century, and came to be seen in China as the play. It was banned by the authorities, yet ran into thousands of editions and no classical scholar would fail to recite these very passages because of the beauty of the language. It contains much useful information about life in China at the time, as well as the relationship between cultural traditions.