鶯鶯傳 by Zhen Yuan
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"鶯鶯傳" by Yuan Zhen is a Tang dynasty tale about a conflicted relationship between a sixteen-year-old girl and a twenty-one-year-old student torn between love and duty. When Zhang protects a wealthy widow's family from danger, he becomes infatuated with her beautiful but petulant daughter, Yingying. Their intense, secretive affair begins passionately but grows strained as Zhang pursues his career ambitions and Yingying feels increasingly abandoned. This pioneering work mixed narration, poetry, and
letters to create psychologically complex characters that would inspire countless later Chinese literary works. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Yuan, Zhen, 779-831 |
|---|---|
| Title | 鶯鶯傳 |
| Alternate Title | Yingying's Biography |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingying%27s_Biography |
| Credits | Produced by Wang Yu-Chun |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | Chinese |
| LoC Class | PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Subject | Chinese fiction -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 52267 |
| Release Date | Jun 8, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 304 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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