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The Romance of the Western Bower

[1 Book]

System #: BA-14-0003

ISBN: 7-80005-552-3
ISBN: 7800055523

Author: Wang Shifu

Language: English/Chinese

Publisher: New World Press, China

Type: Paperback

Pages: 223 Pages

List price: ~~$18.00~~

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On his way to the capital to sit for the civil service examination, Zhang Junrui, a gifted scholar of the Tang Dynasty, arrives in Mid-River Prefecture. He pays a visit to the Salvation Monastery, where he meets and falls in love with Oriole, daughter of late Prime Minister Cui. Madame Cui and her daughter are escorting the coffin of the prime minister to his ancestral burial ground Boling, and are resting for a while at the monastery.

Master Zhang's attempts to approach Oriole are interrupted by a bandit named Sun the Flying Tiger, who surrounds the monastery with his rebel band of 5,000. Sun has heard of the legendary beauty of Oriole, and demands that she be handed over to him as his wife, otherwise he will sack the monastery. In desperation, Madame Cui promises to give her daughter's hand to whoever can lift the siege. Zhang writes a letter to his sworn brother Du Que, known as the White Horse General. Du Que comes immediately to the rescue, routs the bandits and captures their leader. But now that the crisis has passed, Madame Cui begins to regret her rash promise. In her husband's lifetime, Oriole had been engaged to be married to worthless cousin Zheng Heng, and Madame Cui thinks that it would be the height of impropriety to break the engagement to give her daughter to a poor scholar like Zhang. Oriole's maid, Rose, acts as the secret go-between for the young lovers, and Madame Cui finally reluctantly agrees to allow Zhang to marry Oriole, but only on condition that he first comes top in the examination, and returns as the No. 1 Scholar. Zhang and Oriole have a tearful parting at the Pavilion of Parting. Zhang wins the highest honor in the examination and is made prefect of Mid-River Prefecture. But when he returns in triumph he finds that Zheng Heng has claimed his bride, having tricked Madame Cui into believing that Zhang has married the daughter of Minister Wei in the capital and only intends to make Oriole his concubine. Once again, the White Horse General comes to uphold justice. Zheng Heng's lie is exposed, whereupon he kills himself. Zhang and Oriole are married on the spot, with her mother's blessing.

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