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072 7 _aLIT008010
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aTop Graduate Zhang Xie :
_bThe Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource
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490 0 _aTranslations from the Asian Classics
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tTop Graduate Zhang Xie --
_tAppendix I. Dramatis Personae --
_tAppendix II. Synopsis of Acts --
_tAppendix III. Roles in Acts --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tTRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTop Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Dating from the early fifteenth century, but possibly composed earlier, it is the work of a writing club called the Nine Mountain Society.The play relates the story of a talented scholar who sets off for the capital to take the imperial exams. On the road, he is robbed and beaten by a bandit. In a nearby village temple he meets an orphaned girl who nurses him back to health and whom he marries. Once he takes first place in the exams, however, he comes to regret the marriage, setting in motion a series of decisions with disastrous consequences for both of them.Underlying this story of love, ambition, and betrayal are tensions created by the expectations that family, society, and state placed on the scholar. The examination system offered families the promise of social and economic advancement through an official position. The state relied on these men for the administration of the empire, and society expected that education in the classics would produce moral men. The play offers a critique of the scholar’s ideal, the education system, and the ethical values this process was intended to instill.This first full English-language translation of Top Graduate Zhang Xie features a detailed introduction that discusses the foundations of Chinese drama and the play’s composition and performance.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.
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700 1 _aLlamas, Regina S.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/llam19791
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