Laureate Dong's Story of the Western Wing: Passion and Desire in a Buddhist Temple

Author/Contributor(s):	West, Stephen H
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	02/27/2026
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The Story of the Western Wing, one of China's most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. Performed during the thirteenth-fifteenth centuries, this musical ballad is critical to understanding Chinese vernacular and performative literature and offers a unique perspective on literary and social values in China's early modern period.