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Cover illustration: Hong Kong: Photograph of rare Qing Dynasty erotic art. Public domain, source: File:Qingero31.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Names: West, Stephen H. translator | Idema, W. L. (Wilt L.) translator
Title: Winners and losers in a world of wind and dust : students and courtesans in Chinese vernacular literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / introduced and translated by Stephen H. West, Wilt L. Idema.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2025032001 (print) | LCCN 2025032002 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004735576 hardback | ISBN 9789004736351 ebook
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese drama–Song dynasty, 960–1279–Translations into English | Chinese drama–Yuan dynasty, 1260–1368–Translations into English | LCGFT: Drama
Classification: LCC PL2658.E5 W56 2025 (print) | LCC PL2658.E5 (ebook)
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