The Moon Opera

by Feiyu Bi

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London. Saqi Books. 2007. Stock ID #130777 126 pages, glossary. Paperback. In a fit of jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera , disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by the troupe, she turns to teaching. Twenty years later, The Moon Opera is restaged, under the patronage of a rich local factory boss who insists that Xiao Yanqiu return to the role of Chang'e. So she does, this time believing

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