The Peony Pavilion Simplified Characters [Chinese]

by Cao Shan

Du Liniang has a dream in which she meets a young scholar and promises to marry him. When she wakes up, she yearns for her lover and falls ill; after a while she dies of lovesickness. the young scholar in her dream, Liu Mengmei, later made his way to the capital to take the imperial examination. There, he meets Du Liniang's soul at Plum Blossom Nunnery and agrees to help her return to life by reuniting her soul with her body. They are successful and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7800054330
• ISBN13: 9787800054334
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: New World Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Play, Brilliant Translation

Tang Xiansu was a contemporary of Shakespeare (and Cervantes!). His masterpiece, _The Peony Pavilion_, a musical drama in the Kunqu style, is Shakespearean in its literary quality--as translated by Cyril Birch--and super-Shakespearean in its length and scope. Its 55 scenes, playing 20 hours, include all of Shakespeare's genres: romance, history, comedy, tragedy, lyric poetry. A magnificent work and vital theatre as done complete in New York in 1999. Birch's brief intro helps you get into the piece; his short book, "Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming" (Columbia University Press), tells more and also introduces other playwrights and plays in his elegant translations.

Great Book

I love this book. It's so romantic and it has a lot of suspense in it.