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Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature - Princeton Legacy Library Wai-yee Li
Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature - Princeton Legacy Library
Wai-yee Li
In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yu tha
308 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 14, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691603605 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 308 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 425 g |
| Language | English |