Yuan, Zhen 779-831 creator text utu 2016 monographic zh 1 online resource : multiple file formats "鶯鶯傳" by Yuan Zhen is a Tang dynasty tale about a conflicted relationship between a sixteen-year-old girl and a twenty-one-year-old student torn between love and duty. When Zhang protects a wealthy widow's family from danger, he becomes infatuated with her beautiful but petulant daughter, Yingying. Their intense, secretive affair begins passionately but grows strained as Zhang pursues his career ambitions and Yingying feels increasingly abandoned. This pioneering work mixed narration, poetry, and letters to create psychologically complex characters that would inspire countless later Chinese literary works. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingying%27s_Biography Release date is 2016-06-08 Produced by Wang Yu-Chun Original publication data not identified Chinese fiction -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 PL Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52267 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52267 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134214.0 52267