A printed edition of The Peach Blossom Fan, volume one, Lan Xuetang version, 1895
The Peach Blossom Fan (Chinese: 桃花扇; pinyin: Táohuā shàn; Wade–Giles: T'ao-hua shan; Jyutping: Tou4faa1 sin3) is a musical play and historical drama in 44 scenes that was completed in 1699 by the early Qing dynasty playwright Kong Shangren after more than 10 years of effort.[1][2]
The play depicts the drama that resulted in the 1644 collapse of the Ming dynasty.[3] The play recounts the death of the Ming dynasty through the love story of its two main characters, young scholar Hou Fangyu (侯方域) and a famous Geji named Li Xiangjun.[4][5] The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature has called it "China's greatest historical drama".[6]
An English translation published by the University of California Press was translated by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton, K.B.E. with Cyril Birch collaborating.
ThePeachBlossomFan (Chinese: 桃花扇; pinyin: Táohuā shàn; Wade–Giles: T'ao-hua shan; Jyutping: Tou4faa1 sin3) is a musical play and historical drama in...
play ThePeachBlossomFan about the last days of the Ming dynasty. Born in Qufu, Kong was a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius. He guided the Kangxi...
translations of the Qing dynasty play ThePeachBlossomFan, in collaboration with Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton, and the Ming dynasty play The Peony Pavilion...
during the Ming dynasty. Her life was dramatised in the play ThePeachBlossomFan.Li Xiangjun's romance with Hou Fangyu has been called one of the greatest...
regime are depicted in ThePeachBlossomFan, a classic of Chinese literature. The upheaval of this period, sometimes referred to as the Ming–Qing cataclysm...
Dramas", along with The Peony Pavilion, ThePeachBlossomFan and Romance of the Western Chamber. The performance is focused on the everlasting love story...
translation of ThePeachBlossomFan, wrote that presumably the basis of the American play was the A. P. L. Balzin French translation of the Chinese play...
daughter ThePeachBlossomFan (桃花扇), a historical drama completed in 1699 by Kong Shangren, depicted the life under the Hongguang regime. The work has...
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descent. She reportedly received the name Blossom because of "a neighbor who delivered peachblossoms to her house the day she was born", although she...
the Qing dynasty. After his death, he was reviled as a traitor and he is a villain in Kong Shangren's ThePeachBlossomFan. He was a patron of the garden...
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Shi-Zheng collaborated on three pieces of musical theatre: The Orphan of Zhao (2003), PeachBlossomFan (2004) and My Life as a Fairy Tale (2005). Selected tracks...
his chuanqi play ThePeach-BlossomFan Qiao Yu (1927–), a famous Chinese modern songwriter and play writer. Pan Xiaoting (1982–), the first professional...
poignant drama, ThePeachBlossomFan, which explored the moral decay of the Ming in order to explain its fall. Poets whose lives bridged the transition between...
Ho han-shan). The title of this play has also been translated as "Joining the Shirt". Birch, Cyril. "Introduction: ThePeachBlossomFan as Southern Drama...
Street Singer), Qingming shijie (At the Qingming Festival ), Xin taohua shan (A New Version of thePeach-BlossomFan), and Yehuo chunfeng (Blustery Wind...
of Dongfang Bubai in the 2001 TV series Laughing in the Wind. Mao Weitao is one of only 4 people who have won the Plum Blossom Grand Prize, given to...
character who has righteous, brave and loyal attributes in the play ThePeachBlossomFan. Zhang Dai. "陶庵梦忆". zh.wikisource.org (in Simplified Chinese)...
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