书名：Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon / 奇异史：特性、表演与徐渭的《四声猿》
定价：348.0
ISBN：9780674066854
作者：Shiamin Kwa
版次：1
出版时间：2013-01

内容提要：
书名：Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon / 奇事纷呈的历史：身份、表演与徐渭的《四声猿》
作者：Shiamin Kwa (柯雪润)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2012年
装帧：精装，273–288页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6740-6685-4

简介
本书是晚明剧作家徐渭的杂剧杰作《四声猿》的首部批评性研究与注释译本。作者Shiamin Kwa探讨了人们在非常情境下如何相遇和理解彼此。《四声猿》包含了来世申冤、女子女扮男装求取功名等故事，在晚明出现时便搅动了自我与身份认同等议题，为晚明至清初小说与戏剧中对此类问题日益细致的反思铺平了道路。徐渭富有影响力的剧作证明了作者所称的戏剧中普遍存在的策略——剧中的男女主角在生死、男女界限之间往复穿梭，寻求表达真正的自我，而观众也被邀请去思考自身生活中的真实。

When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated translation of the dramatic masterpiece Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty Chinese playwright Xu Wei, author Shiamin Kwa considers the ways that people encounter and understand each other in extraordinary circumstances. With its tales of crimes redressed in the next world and girls masquerading as men to achieve everlasting fame, Four Cries of a Gibbon complicated issues of self and identity when it appeared in the late Ming dynasty, paving the way for increasingly nuanced reflections on such questions in late Ming and early Qing fiction and drama. Beyond their historical context, Xu Wei's influential plays serve as testimony to what Kwa argues are universal strategies found within drama. The heroes and heroines in these plays glide back and forth across the borders of life and death, of male and female, as they seek to articulate who they truly are. As the actors sort out these truths onstage, the members of the audience are invited to consider the truths that they live with offstage