Top Graduate Zhang XIE: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play

Top Graduate Zhang XIE: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play

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Author/Contributor(s): Llamas, Regina S
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: 06/01/2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.