The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China
内容简介:This book is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and reassesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown.
ISBN:9789888754076
语言:英文
作者:Alison Hardie
作者背景:Alison Hardie is an honorary research fellow in Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. Her primary research interest is the cultural history of Ming dynasty China, particularly the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the Ming–Qing transition. She has published extensively on the garden history and culture of this period, particularly the use of gardens for self-representation, as well as publishing translations of garden literature. She is the translator of Ji Cheng’s seventeenth-century treatise The Craft of Gardens (Yuanye) and editor of The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature (2020).
