Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan

by Tina Lu

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an impostor or twin) be identified? Both plays are chuanqi, representatives of a monumental genre that represents Chinese dramatic literature at its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737118
• ISBN13: 9780804737111
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"