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Studies of zaju plays of the Ming and Qing dynasties have for long been a neglected area in both China and elsewhere. For that reason, this anthology is a timely translation providing new materials not only for general readers interested in premodern Chinese zaju plays, but also for students and scholars to engage in further studies of the genre during the Ming and Qing period. -- Hongchu Fu, author of <i>Chinese Drama</i> A brilliant collection of rare and original works that provides a broad and varied purview of Chinese performance traditions. The dominant leitmotif of these translations is the ingenuity and audacity with which writers subvert convention while questioning the socio-political order. -- Regina Llamas, translator of <i>Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play</i>

Studies of zaju plays of the Ming and Qing dynasties have for long been a neglected area in both China and elsewhere. For that reason, this anthology is a timely translation providing new materials not only for general readers interested in premodern Chinese zaju plays, but also for students and scholars to engage in further studies of the genre during the Ming and Qing period. -- Hongchu Fu, author of <i>Chinese Drama</i>

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Wilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University. Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Stephen H. West is Louis Agassiz Emeritus Professor of Chinese, University of California, Berkeley, and Emeritus Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University.

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