Acknowledgments Prologue Part I. Mudan Ting: Introduction to Mudan ting 1. The girl's protrait 2. The lover's dream 3. The emperor's promise Part II. Taohua Shan: Introduction to Taohua shan 4. The prostitute's fan 5. The actor's stage 6. The emperor's throne Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
Tina Lu is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
"...the main news about this book is that it is a solid, learned, perceptive, coherent, and information-packed study of Ming and Qing drama that will amply reward the time of any reader interetsed in the cultural, intellectual, and esthetic history of late imperial China." - Eric Henry, University of North Carolina "This is an original and thought-provoking study." - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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