Da Zheng Livres

In 1933, Shih-I Hsiung, a Chinese student, was inspired by Shakespearean scholar Allardyce Nicoll to explore Chinese drama for his PhD. This led to the creation of "Lady Precious Stream," a play based on Beijing opera, which became an instant success, running for 900 performances in London and later on Broadway. Hsiung's achievement marked him as the first Chinese playwright in the West End, and he continued to impact theater with translations and original works, including "The Romance of the Western Chamber" and various essays and biographies.

Through its examination of nineteenth-century American realistic novels in their cultural context. Moral Economy and American Realistic Novels arguesthe importance of cultural motifs - such as insanity, lack of sympathy, and attention seeking - in the representation of social reality. It also argues that the formal problems of the realistic novels are the very loci where the novelists' concern for and engagement with their social reality are manifested. By revealing these writers' desire for a moral economy characterized by sanity, brotherly feelings, or modesty, the study underlines their ambivalent attitudes toward capitalism.