Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming - Paperback
Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming - Paperback
Description
by Cyril Birch (Author)
The first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the period and lively commentary on each, providing the context necessary for Western readers to grasp the scope of the genre.
Author Biography
Cyril Birch is professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley. Among the many books he has written, translated, and edited are Stories from a Ming Collection (1968), Studies in Chinese Literary Genres, The Peony Pavilionand, with Donald Keene, Anthology of Chinese Literature (1987).
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