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Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play - Translations from the Asian Classics Regina S. Llamas
Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play - Translations from the Asian Classics
Regina S. Llamas
Top 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 relates the story of a talented scholar who sets off for the capital to take the imperial exams.
472 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 1, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231197939 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 217 × 141 × 33 mm · 552 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Llamas, Regina |