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Book Description
One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humor of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists.
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- English Books
- Paperback 400 Pages
- Edition: 2nd
- ISBN-10: 0253215277
- ISBN-13: 9780253215277
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Pub date: Mar 01, 2002
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1097 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780253215277 | Paperback | -- | $20.95 | bn.com |
| $20.95 | $18.54 | The Book Depository |
Robot-mel 
This was an enjoyable translation. It seemed accurate enough that when I went to look up a translated passage in the original Chinese I found it immediately. It was nice to read the whole story and find out what happened in the scenecs that were missing from the production that I saw the week before ... (continue)
This was an enjoyable translation. It seemed accurate enough that when I went to look up a translated passage in the original Chinese I found it immediately. It was nice to read the whole story and find out what happened in the scenecs that were missing from the production that I saw the week before. It turned out that my favorite night, in addition to being about ghosts and hell, also had the fewest missing scenes, and the night I found the weakest, the last night, had the most. I got this copy from the SOAS library, but will buy my own so I can use it to help me read the original, as it is such a poetic piece it really does need to be read in the original language.
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