Master Tung's Western chamber romance: a Chinese chantefable = Tung hsi-hsiang chu-kung-tiao

"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...

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Main Author: Dong, Jieyuan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Chinese
Published: New York Columbia Univ. Press 1994
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:XXX, 238 S.
ISBN:0231101198

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