游園驚夢 Youyuan Jingmeng [Peony Pavilion] dir. 楊凡 Yonfan, starring 王祖賢 Joey Wong & 宮澤理惠 Miyazawa Rie, 2001

[Just cleaning house, don't mind me]

For the sake of simplicity, I will be referring to 游園驚夢 as Peony Pavilion and 牡丹亭 as Mudan Ting


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I've once again been totally enchanted by 游園驚夢 (yes, that includes bawling my heart out for the past two hours and replaying several scenes just so I could cry more - but I think that's more a function of 古文 being astoundingly beautiful in its paucity - Chinese amazes me, it really does ( Read more... )

游園驚夢 [Peony Pavilion] dir. 楊凡 Yonfan, 2001

and

Judith T. Zeitlin, "Shared Dreams: The Story of The Three Wives' Commentary on the Peony Pavilion" (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 54, no. 1 (June 1994), pp. 127-179)

See also: Dorothy Ko, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century China (Stanford: Stanford ( Read more... )