Mao Xiang recorded his memory of his concubine Dong Xiaowan years after her untimely death in the upheaval after the fall of the Ming Dynasty.Dong Xiaowan was a courtesan in the Qinhuai district of the Ming Southern capital of Nanjing when she met Mao Xiang.I have translated the first part of Reminiscences of the Convent of Shadowy Plum-blossoms describing the circumstances surrounding Dong Xiaowan's marriage to Mao Xiang and her relationship with his family and the second part describing their daily life together.The first two sections form the first two installments of this series.In this installment I translate the third and final section.The section part of Reminiscences of the Convent of Shadowy Plum-blossoms begins with anecdotes from...
The discovery of a 982-character epitaph for Shangguan Wan’er 上官婉儿 (664–710)–drafter of imperial edi...
The birth, flourishing, and decline of Yuan tsa-chu, a form of Chinese musical poetic drama, occurre...
Yingzong’s 英宗 younger brother by a different mother, the Prince of Cheng郕王, came to the throne on th...
Mao Xiang recorded his memory of his concubine Dong Xiaowan years after her untimely death in the up...
In Reminiscences of the Convent of Shadowy Plum-blossoms, Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his con...
Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his concubine Dong Xiao-wan, who died an early death.The translat...
Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his concubine Dong Xiao-wan, who died an early death.The translat...
Mao Xiang (1611–1693), a man of letters from the late Ming and early Qing periods, is famous for Rem...
The Ming-Qing period has been said by many scholars to be a time when literati authors wrote biograp...
Mao Xiang (1611–1693), a man of letters from the late Ming and early Qing periods, is famous for Rem...
Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan 醒世姻緣傳 is a vernacular Chinese novel which was composed in late Ming or early Q...
During the transition period from the Ming (明) to the Qing (清) Dynasties in the late seventeenth cen...
Imperial Consort Yang (719-756) was the most favored imperial consort of Li Longji (685–762, also kn...
Peng Jiannan, a mid-Qing playwright (fl. late 18th to early 19th century) wrote two dramas, Yingmei ...
Ssŭ-ma Jui was enthroned in A. D. 318 by the recommendation of one hundred and eighty of royalists i...
The discovery of a 982-character epitaph for Shangguan Wan’er 上官婉儿 (664–710)–drafter of imperial edi...
The birth, flourishing, and decline of Yuan tsa-chu, a form of Chinese musical poetic drama, occurre...
Yingzong’s 英宗 younger brother by a different mother, the Prince of Cheng郕王, came to the throne on th...
Mao Xiang recorded his memory of his concubine Dong Xiaowan years after her untimely death in the up...
In Reminiscences of the Convent of Shadowy Plum-blossoms, Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his con...
Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his concubine Dong Xiao-wan, who died an early death.The translat...
Mao Xiang recorded his memories of his concubine Dong Xiao-wan, who died an early death.The translat...
Mao Xiang (1611–1693), a man of letters from the late Ming and early Qing periods, is famous for Rem...
The Ming-Qing period has been said by many scholars to be a time when literati authors wrote biograp...
Mao Xiang (1611–1693), a man of letters from the late Ming and early Qing periods, is famous for Rem...
Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan 醒世姻緣傳 is a vernacular Chinese novel which was composed in late Ming or early Q...
During the transition period from the Ming (明) to the Qing (清) Dynasties in the late seventeenth cen...
Imperial Consort Yang (719-756) was the most favored imperial consort of Li Longji (685–762, also kn...
Peng Jiannan, a mid-Qing playwright (fl. late 18th to early 19th century) wrote two dramas, Yingmei ...
Ssŭ-ma Jui was enthroned in A. D. 318 by the recommendation of one hundred and eighty of royalists i...
The discovery of a 982-character epitaph for Shangguan Wan’er 上官婉儿 (664–710)–drafter of imperial edi...
The birth, flourishing, and decline of Yuan tsa-chu, a form of Chinese musical poetic drama, occurre...
Yingzong’s 英宗 younger brother by a different mother, the Prince of Cheng郕王, came to the throne on th...