The World of K'ung Shang-Jen: The Journey of a Literatus Through Early Ch'ing China, by R. Strassberg
FAIN: RP-*0940-81
Columbia University Press (New York, NY 10025-8004)
William F. Bernhardt (Project Director: November 1980 to October 1990)
To support publication of a biography and study of the times of the Chinese poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar-official K'ung Shang-jen (1648-1718), best known for his play THE PEACH BLOSSOM FAN, which depicts the last years of the Ming Dynasty.