Lady Precious Stream : an old Chinese play done into English according to its traditional style / by S. I. Hsiung ; with a preface by Lascelles Abercrombie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hsiung, S. I. (Shih I), 1902-1991, translator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chinese Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Wang Baochuan.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Hsiung, S. I. (Shih-i), 1902-1991 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 168 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (3 color) ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street, W.C., [1935]

Notes:

Half-title in Chinese.

"With three illustrations in colour by Hsu Pei-Hung (Ju Péon) and twelve in monotone by Chiang Yee."

Price from dust-jacket: 8/6.

"The following pages present a typical play exactly as produced on a Chinese stage. It is every inch a Chinese play except the language, which, as far as my very limited English allows, I have interpreted as satisfactorily as I can."--Introduction, p. xvii.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Maurice J. Speiser by S.I. Hsiung, New York 1936. Signed in English and Chinese.

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks.

OCLC:

5532597