Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-Yee Li
Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature

Wai-Yee Li

Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature

Wai-Yee Li

307 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

reflective slow-paced
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In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece "The Dream of the Red Chamber," the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine wome...

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