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The Butterfly Lovers

- The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Four Versions with Related Texts
Engelsk Hardback

The Butterfly Lovers

- The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Four Versions with Related Texts
Engelsk Hardback
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The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare''s Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story, the tragic ending offers proof that equality and happiness can only be achieved in a China freed from the traditional family system.

This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad along with later literary reinventions of the tale; a variety of related documents reveal the historical and cultural origins of the legend. In his Introduction, Wilt L. Idema provides essential contextual information and discusses how the story of the Butterfly Lovers fits into modern Chinese concepts of gender roles and sexual freedom.

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The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare''s Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story, the tragic ending offers proof that equality and happiness can only be achieved in a China freed from the traditional family system.

This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad along with later literary reinventions of the tale; a variety of related documents reveal the historical and cultural origins of the legend. In his Introduction, Wilt L. Idema provides essential contextual information and discusses how the story of the Butterfly Lovers fits into modern Chinese concepts of gender roles and sexual freedom.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781603841955
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1603841954
Kategori: China
Udg. Dato: 15 mar 2010
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 224mm
Forlag: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Oplagsdato: 15 mar 2010
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Kategori China


ISBN-13 9781603841955


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 148mm


Højde 224mm


Udg. Dato 15 mar 2010


Oplagsdato 15 mar 2010


Forlag Hackett Publishing Co, Inc