Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon

by Shiamin Kwa

When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated translation of the dramatic masterpiece Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty Chinese playwright Xu Wei, author Shiamin Kwa considers the ways that people encounter and understand each other in extraordinary circumstances. With its tales of crimes redressed in the next world and girls masquerading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066855
• ISBN13: 9780674066854
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"