The Peach Blossom Fan (T'ao-hua-shan) (English and Chinese Edition) - Hardcover

K'ung Shang-jen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520029283 ISBN 13: 9780520029286

Publisher: University of California Press, 1976

Synopsis

The Peach Blossom Fan is a poetic drama about national cataclysm. More than 300 years ago, the last native Chinese imperial house fell before rebel onslaughts, made a short-lived attempt at restoration in the south, then yielded finally to the invading Manchus. Writing in the 1690s, K'ung Shang-jen gathered the recollections of survivors. Out of these and a multitude of documentary accounts, he constructed a great historical play in the elegant Southern Chinese style. With compelling vividness he recreates confrontations between loyalists and those who would sell out to the newest master; nostalgic scenes of dalliance in riverside pavilions, with wine and poetry and beautiful girls; desperate stands on battlements of beleaguered cities; and more. Prefatory materials and notes provide both historical and dramaturgical background for the reader's full enjoyment of this masterpiece.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Chinese (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0520029283
• ISBN 13: 9780520029286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312