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Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance - Ch'en, Li-Li, Professor (Translated by)
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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).

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Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance 1994, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231101196

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