Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming by Birch, Cyril

Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231102636)

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Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming by Birch, Cyril

Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming

$42.00
Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming by Birch, Cyril

Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming

$42.00
Format: Paperback
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The first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the period and lively commentary on each, providing the context necessary for Western readers to grasp the scope of the genre.



Author: Cyril Birch
ISBN-10: 0231102631
ISBN-13: 9780231102636
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.91h x 5.99w x 0.59d
By Cyril Birch
By Cyril Birch
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Cyril Birch is professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California at Berkeley. Among the many books he has written, translated, and edited are Stories from a Ming Collection (1968), Studies in Chinese Literary Genres, The Peony Pavilionand, with Donald Keene, Anthology of Chinese Literature (1987).

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