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This twelfth century masterpiece suffered virtual oblivion from the late fourteenth century until 1912, when it was rediscovered by the great sinologist Wang Kuo-wei who helped restore it to its preeminent position in Chinese literature. Comprising 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, it is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying,by Yuan Chen (779-831).Tung Chieh-Yuan is the author of 'Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance Tung Hsi-Hsiang Chu-Kung-Tiao A Chinese Chantefable', published 1994 under ISBN 9780231101196 and ISBN 0231101198.
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