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“The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” by Nan Z Da

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Nan Z Da has been teaching Shakespeare’s play King Lear, she says, for more than six years. One cannot help but envy her students.

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Posted on 21 July 202521 July 2025 Non-Fiction

“The People’s Bard: How China Made Shakespeare its Own” by Nancy Pellegrini

One would think—what with this year being the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare—that a treatment of the playwright in China would be inevitable. And so it has proved: Nancy Pellegrini’s The People’s Bard has just been released as the latest Penguin China Special.

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Posted on 24 September 201625 September 2016 Non-FictionReviews
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