The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the
Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates
a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences
of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story,
the tragic ending offers proof that equality and happiness can only
be achieved in a China freed from the traditional family system.
This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the
popular ballad along with later literary reinventions of the tale;
a variety of related documents reveal the historical and cultural
origins of the legend. In his Introduction, Wilt L. Idema provides
essential contextual information and discusses how the story of the
Butterfly Lovers fits into modern Chinese concepts of gender roles
and sexual freedom.
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