A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties by Wilt L. Idema, Stephen H. West, Wai-yee Li
A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
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Wilt L. Idema, Stephen H. West, Wai-yee Li
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A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Wilt L. Idema, Stephen H. West, Wai-yee Li

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A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century plays, spotlighting a lesser-known side of Chinese drama. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays depict deceit, dissembling, reversed gen...

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