{"product_id":"top-graduate-zhang-xie-9780231197922","title":"Top Graduate Zhang Xie","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegina S. Llamas brings a lifetime of research and a flair for literary nuance to the translation of \u003ci\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003c\/i\u003e to let the reader experience why this play made for great theater. Her rendition beautifully captures the riotous fun of the original, and her introduction is a tour de force in its own right. -- Patricia Sieber, author of \u003ci\u003eTheaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe manuscript copy of \u003ci\u003eZhang Xie zhuangyuan\u003c\/i\u003e is our only surviving complete example of a full-length southern play preceding the fifteenth century. It is a marvelous comedy, parodying all the conventions it employs. This sparkling translation by Llamas includes an extensive introduction that provides a detailed and critical discussion of the play and its genre. -- Wilt L. Idema, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving a complete English translation of \u003ci\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003c\/i\u003e gives students and comparatists a far more comprehensive view of this performance form than ever before. Llamas’s introduction and notes authoritatively situate the play historically, culturally, and in terms of textual creation and transmission. This is an excellent addition to the Translations from the Asian Classics series. -- Robert E. Hegel, cotranslator of \u003ci\u003eA Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003c\/i\u003e leaves the audience in stitches (or, as the Chinese would rather say, unstitched), while experts cherish it as a key to early Chinese theater lost in oblivion. Llamas brings these two worlds together with her vivid translation and erudite scholarship on the centennial of the play’s rediscovery. -- Ling Hon Lam, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegina S. Llamas' translation reads well, and \u003ci\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003c\/i\u003e is a consistently entertaining play . . . This edition — with its lengthy, thorough Introduction — is a fine introduction to Chinese drama for those new to it. * Complete Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Regina S. Llamas\u003cbr\u003eTop Graduate Zhang Xie\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I. Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II. Synopsis of Acts\u003cbr\u003eAppendix III. Roles in Acts\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400353554775,"sku":"9780231197922","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231197922.jpg?v=1730470471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/top-graduate-zhang-xie-9780231197922","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}