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The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts

Wilt L. Idema
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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts. To get started finding The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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256
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Hackett Publishing
Release
2010
ISBN
1603842977

The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts

Wilt L. Idema
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts. To get started finding The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend Of Liang Shanbo And Zhu Yingtai, Four Versions With Related Texts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Hackett Publishing
Release
2010
ISBN
1603842977

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