TY - BOOK AU - Gao,Ming AU - Chen,Jiru TI - 琵琶記 AV - PL PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Chinese drama N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Pipa; Release date is 2008-04-30; Original publication data not identified N2 - "琵琶記" by Ming Gao is a Chinese nanxi play written during the late Yuan dynasty. Set in the Han dynasty, it tells the story of Zhao Wuniang, a loyal wife left destitute when her husband is forced to marry another woman. She embarks on a twelve-year search for him, playing the pipa to survive. The play became the most popular drama of the Ming dynasty and established a new literary standard for Chinese theatre. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25246 ER -