Master Tung’s Western Chamber Romance

Translated by Li-li Ch'en

January, 1994
Paper, 238 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10119-6
$32.00 / £19.00

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).—Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania

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• Asian Literature

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