The moon opera / Bi Feiyu ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
By: Bi, Feiyu.
Contributor(s): Goldblatt, Howard | Lin, Sylvia Li-chun.
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BookPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009Description: 117 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780151012947 (trade); 0151012946.Subject(s): Women singers -- China -- Beijing -- Fiction | Opera companies -- China -- Beijing -- Fiction | Women singers -- Fiction | Opera -- Beijing (China)DDC classification: 895.1/352 | [Fic] Summary: After Xiao, a singer in the Peking Opera, grows jealous of her understudy and disfigures her with boiling water, she is turned away and becomes a teacher; unhappily married and overweight at forty, she is offered a chance to reprise her old role while believing herself to be the immortal moon goddess.
Originally published: London : Telegram, 2007.
After Xiao, a singer in the Peking Opera, grows jealous of her understudy and disfigures her with boiling water, she is turned away and becomes a teacher; unhappily married and overweight at forty, she is offered a chance to reprise her old role while believing herself to be the immortal moon goddess.
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