Falling in Love: Stories from Ming China

by PatrickHanan (Translator)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $24.72

  Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. This work contains stories that deal with this theme in different ways. They portray young people choosing their own lovers, resorting to ingenious stratagems.