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"月色溶溶夜，花阴寂寂春。如何临皓魂，不见月中人。"

— The Story of the Western Wing

January 1, 1970

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Plays Chinese literature

Original Language: English

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Variant translations: — A night bathed in moonlight, A spring desolated by flowers' shadows; Why, under the hoary sickle, Do I not see the lady in the moon? — The Story of the Western Wing, trans. Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Iderna (University of California Press, 1995), p. 140 — All dissolve in moonlight, Spring's lonely in flowers' shade. I see the moon so bright. Where's her beautiful maid? — Romance of the Western Bower, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Hunan People's Publishing House and Foreign Langua

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Variant translations: — A night bathed in moonlight, A spring desolated by flowers' shadows; Why, under the hoary sickle, Do I not see the lady in the moon? — The Story of the Western Wing, trans. Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Iderna (University of California Press, 1995), p. 140 — All dissolve in moonlight, Spring's lonely in flowers' shade. I see the moon so bright. Where's her beautiful maid? — Romance of the Western Bower, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Hunan People's Publishing House and Foreign Langua