| The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama Contributor(s): Hsia, C. T. (Editor), Li, Wai-Yee (Editor), Kao, George (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231122675 ISBN-13: 9780231122672 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $41.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Asian - General - Drama | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 800 |
| LCCN: 2013030067 |
| Series: Translations from the Asian Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 7.02" W x 10.04" (1.61 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama formed a vital part of China's culture of performance and entertainment in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To date, few Yuan-dynasty plays have been translated into English. Well-known translators and scholars have supervised the making of this collection and add a short description to each play. A general introduction situates all selections within their cultural and historical contexts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Li, Wai-Yee: - Wai-yee Li is professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014) and The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007). |