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 most complex: Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion is a romantic comedy in 55 acts, and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan narrates the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 40 acts.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 30 August 2011
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The Red Pavilion - A Judge Dee Mystery
A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution.
Богато иллюстрированный и весьма информативный путеводитель по Королевскому павильону в Брайтоне.
This generously illustrated guide book presents plenty of curious information about one of the most famous Britain's landmarks – the Oriental-style palace of King George IV, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
Tish and Pish: A delicious collection of sumptious gorgiosities: How to be of a Speakingness Like Stephen Fry
The English tongue has never tasted more delicious than in the mouth of Stephen Fry: his chokingly brilliant sesquipedalian prose is like a shaft of sunlight through the drizzle of quotidian language. Now, with this bound monograph, we can all emit a similarly exquisite effulgence and enjoy the bright shaft of Stephen Fry locution in the privacy of our own smallest pavilion. May his shaft continue to pleasure us for many years to come. After all, what could be fluffier?
