"The Western Wing is not a work written by an individual named Wang Shifu alone; if I read it carefully, it will also be a work of my own creation, because all the words in The Western Wing happen to be the words that I want to say and that I want to write down."
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Jin Shengtan, as quoted in The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Vol. II (2010), ed. Kang-i Sun Chang and Stephen Owen, p. 116
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The Story of the Western Wing
The Story of the Western Wing (Chinese: 西廂記), also translated as Romance of the Western Chamber, is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (王實甫), and set during the Tang dynasty. Known as "China's most popular love comedy," it is the story of a young couple consummating their love without parental approval, and has been seen both as a "lover's bible" and "potentially lethal," as readers were in danger of pining away under its influ
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