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

308 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-y , to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women ...

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