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The Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : K'ung Shang-jen
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2015-07-21
The Peach Blossom Fan written by K'ung Shang-jen and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with Drama categories.
A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature, a vast dramatic composition that combines the range and depth of a great novel with the swift intensity of film. In the mid-1640s, famine sweeps through China. The Ming dynasty, almost 300 years old, lurches to a bloody end. Peking falls to the Manchus, the emperor hangs himself, and Ming loyalists take refuge in the southern capital of Nanking. Two valiant generals seek to defend the city, but nothing can overcome the corruption, decadence, and factionalism of the court in exile. The newly installed emperor cares for nothing but theater, leaving practical matters to the insidious Ma Shih-ying. Ma’s crony Juan Ta-ch’eng is as unscrupulous an operator as he is sophisticated a poet. He diverts resources from the starving troops in order to stage a spectacular production of his latest play. History, however, has little time for make-believe, though the earnest members of the Revival Club, centered on the handsome young scholar Hou Fang-yü and his lover Fragrant Princess, struggle to discover a happy ending.
The Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : Shangren Kong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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The Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : T.L. Yang
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-01
The Peach Blossom Fan written by T.L. Yang and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-01 with Fiction categories.
The story is set in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, when the Manchu invaders were already in close proximity to the capital. Instead of fighting the enemy, the great officials of state devoted themselves to intrigues, corruption and self-aggrandizement. A few concerned individuals, mostly members of the literati, spent time in endless debates and took no practical action. It fell to a courtesan, the Perfumed Lady, to show them the way. Her young lover, Hou Fangyu, however, chose to relinquish the world, in spite of his earlier professions of patriotism. Broken-hearted, she retired to a convent and became a nun. Much of what appears in the book is factual. The principle characters were real people; even the fan existed.
The Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : Shangren Kong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Peach Blossom Fan written by Shangren Kong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
The Peach Blossom Fan is a poetic drama about national cataclysm. More than 300 years ago, the last native Chinese imperial house fell before rebel onslaughts, made a short-lived attempt at restoration in the south, then yielded finally to the invading Manchus. Writing in the 1690s, Kng Shang-jen gathered the recollections of survivors. Out of these and a multitude of documentary accounts, he constructed a great historical play in the elegant Southern Chinese style. With compelling vividness he recreates confrontations between loyalists and those who would sell out to the newest master; nostalgic scenes of dalliance in riverside pavilions, with wine and poetry and beautiful girls; desperate stands on battlements of beleaguered cities; and more. Sir Harold Acton, who collaborated with the late S. H. Chen and Cyril Birch in making this translation, has captured in his lively English the spirit and nuances of the original. Prefatory materials and notes provide both historical and dramaturgical background for the reader full enjoyment of this masterpiece.
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Author : 孔尚仁
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-07-01
written by 孔尚仁 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Chinese drama categories.
The Peach Blossom Fan Other Qing Dynasty Stories
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Author : Rongyao Li
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Peach Blossom Fan Other Qing Dynasty Stories written by Rongyao Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Chinese drama categories.
The Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : Richard E. Strassberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : Shang-jen K'ung
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Peach Blossom Fan written by Shang-jen K'ung and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Chinese drama categories.
The Peach Blossom Fan is a poetic drama about national cataclysm. More than 300 years ago, the last native Chinese imperial house fell before rebel onslaughts, made a short-lived attempt at restoration in the south, then yielded finally to the invading Manchus. Writing in the 1690s, Kng Shang-jen gathered the recollections of survivors. Out of these and a multitude of documentary accounts, he constructed a great historical play in the elegant Southern Chinese style. With compelling vividness he recreates confrontations between loyalists and those who would sell out to the newest master; nostalgic scenes of dalliance in riverside pavilions, with wine and poetry and beautiful girls; desperate stands on battlements of beleaguered cities; and more. Sir Harold Acton, who collaborated with the late S. H. Chen and Cyril Birch in making this translation, has captured in his lively English the spirit and nuances of the original. Prefatory materials and notes provide both historical and dramaturgical background for the reader full enjoyment of this masterpiece.
Peach Blossom Fan
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Author : 孔尚仁
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Peach Blossom Fan written by 孔尚仁 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Chinese fiction categories.
"The Peach Blossom Fan is a great masterpiece of Kun opera and has been a favorite of Chinese audiences for more than 300 years. It takes the love story between the Revival Society poet Hou Fanyu and the beautiful river courtesan Li Xiangjun as its basis; but as a historical epic, it reflects the brief splendor and fall of the short-lived Southern Ming dynasty. This book, with plain words, intends to help foreign readers understand the story and appreciate classic Chinese opera"--Book jacket.
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Author : 孔尚任
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
written by 孔尚任 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Chinese drama categories.