Mistress and Maid (Jiohong ji) by Meng Chengshun (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics
Antal sidor: 288
Utgivningsdatum: 2001-03-16
Förlag: Columbia University Press
Översättare: Cyril Birch
Originalspråk: Kinesiska
Dimensioner: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
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ISBN: 9780231121699

Mistress and Maid (Jiohong ji) by Meng Chengshun

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-03-16

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Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of both conventional morality and the arranged marriage through vivid drama and witty comic scenes makes this seventeenth-century play particularly innovative. Chinese critics have hailed it as essentially revolutionary for its depiction of youthful resistance to latter-day Confucian values, but as Birch notes in the introduction, "the glory of Mistress & Maid is the tender delicacy of the lovers' interactions." This depth of feeling also distinguishes the play from others of the "talent-meets-beauty" genre so prevalent during the late-imperial age.

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Cyril Birch is Agassiz Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author, editor, or translator of numerous books, including Scenes for Mandarins (Columbia) and The Peony Pavilion.