
China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled...





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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We...
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The stories included in this collection are some of the oldest and most popular in Chinese literature. Some of them started as folk legends; others were written by the literati for palace entertainment. All of them have been revised and adapted numerous times as poems, plays,...
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Le Pavillon de l'ouest (Xixiang ji), de Wang Shifu (ca. 1250-ca. 1307), est la piece la plus celebre du repertoire theatral de la Chine classique. Cette piece - en fait une suite de cinq pieces - fut composee vers 1300, au coeur de la premiere grande periode de...