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How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese
A Language Companion
Series: How to Read Chinese Literature
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This volume is ideal for advanced Chinese learners, native speakers, and specialists in Chinese literature or theatre. It suits classrooms focusing on advanced modern or classical Chinese and serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in deepening their engagement with Chinese drama and culture.
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. A companion to How to Read Chinese Drama designed for Chinese-language learners, it provides a versatile introduction to traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language.
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This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners.
How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to iconic scenes from traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language. Each chapter features an excerpt from a well-known play, ranging across political intrigue, military adventure, heroic devotion, romantic passion, and raucous humour. A succinct and informative English-language introduction precedes each scene. Excerpts are accompanied by line-by-line modern Chinese translations; individual words and expressions are annotated in English with modern Chinese equivalent expressions supplied. Dramatic scenes are followed by exercises that deepen language proficiency and knowledge of traditional and modern Chinese culture.
This book can be used as a textbook in the advanced modern Chinese or the classical Chinese classroom, as a companion in a Chinese literature course for advanced learners and native speakers, or as a springboard to deeper engagement with Chinese theatre for specialists and interested general readers alike.
Series: How to Read Chinese Literature
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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese
This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese presents more than forty prose works, either excerpts or in full, from antiquity...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to iconic scenes from traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language....Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese
This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to iconic scenes from traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original language....Hardback$26699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
How to Read Chinese Drama
This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts. How to Read Chinese Drama highlights how each play sheds light on key...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
How to Read Chinese Prose
This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose. For each work, the book presents an English translation, the Chinese original, and accessible critical commentary by leading scholars....Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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Praised as a well-designed coursebook, it equips instructors and students to approach advanced Chinese through traditional drama, filling a rare gap in classical Chinese studies. Experts commend its extraordinary scholarship, versatility, and the way it illuminates the rich, multifaceted performance modes of Chinese theatre. The primer is noted for helping readers appreciate the beauty and musicality of classical Chinese drama.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780231209571
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 March 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Contributors:
- Edited by Patricia Sieber
- Edited by Wenbo Chang
- Edited by Yingde Guo
- Edited by Xiaohui Zhang
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Guo Yingde is professor of Chinese language and literature in the Institute of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University.
Wenbo Chang is lecturer in Chinese language and literature in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia.
Patricia Sieber is associate professor of Chinese literature and director of the Translation and Interpreting program at Ohio State University as well as coeditor of How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology (2022).
Xiaohui Zhang (1985–2020) was a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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