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Fourth Sister Zhang Creates Havoc in the Eastern Capital

Author(s) -

Wilt L. Idema

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

chinoperl

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 2051-6150

pISSN - 0193-7774

DOI - 10.1179/chi.2012.31.1.37

Subject(s) - zhàng , sister , capital (architecture) , history , ancient history , political science , archaeology , law , china

The basic story of Fourth Sister Zhang Creates Havoc in the Eastern Capital (Zhang Sijie danao Dongjing 張四姐大鬧東京) is widely known in China and has been adapted, under a bewildering variety of titles, in many local genres of drama and storytelling. The earliest record of this story is found in the notice devoted to the lost chuanqi 傳奇 play A Heavenly Bond (Tianyuan ji 天緣記) in the eighteenth-century Quhai zongmu tiyao 曲海總目題要 (Annotated bibliography of the sea of plays). This notice may be translated as follows:

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