In a world where honor is traded for silver and women's fates are written by the men who possess them, Zhao Pan'er Rescues a Courtesan in the Name of Love unfolds as a fierce, moving tale of justice, sisterhood, and survival.Originally written during the Yuan dynasty and traditionally attributed to the legendary dramatist Guan Hanqing**,** this play follows the story of Zhao Pan'er, a clever and courageous former courtesan who now runs her own teahouse. When her sworn sist...

Volume of eight plays by Guan Hanqing, the "Shakespeare of China." Includes Snow in Midsummer, a work which appears on International Baccalaureate Curricula.

This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260). Although other authors have studied these three aspects of Dou E yuan separately, this is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic as a scholarly monograph in English. Yumin Ao’s analysis...

Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. T...