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Romance of the Western Chamber
The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang ji) is a Chinese love story best known through the zaju drama by Wang Shifu of the Yuan dynasty. It tells of the scholar Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, who meet in a monastery and, helped by the maid Hongniang, defy her mother. Derived from a Tang tale by Yuan Zhen and Dong Jieyuan's Jin version, it became one of the most popular plays in Chinese literature.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Romance of the Western Chamber. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/romance-of-the-western-chamber
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