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Lady White Snake: A Tale from Chinese Opera - Hardcover

Shepard, Aaron

 
9781572270725: Lady White Snake: A Tale from Chinese Opera

Synopsis

Tells the story of a white snake and a blue snake in the Chinese city of Hangzhou who disguise themselves as young ladies to see what it would be like to be human.

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What fate awaits a thousand-year-old white snake that travels from its sacred mountain to the human world, only to fall in love with a mortal? Such is the unusual beginning of this tragic love story, one of the most popular in all of Chinese opera. Lady White's selfless devotion to her earthly husband is considered by the temple priest an abomination. In a spectacular struggle to stay with her husband, our heroine prevails in the end. However, time is sadly not on her side.

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