Yuan Zhen - Prose

Prose

The Biography of Ying-ying has been translated by James Hightower ("Yüan Chen and 'The Story of YIng-ying'" HJAS 33 (1973): 90-123), Arthur Waley (available in the Anthology of Chinese Literature by Cyril Birch, vol. I. (ISBN 0-8021-5038-1), and is also available in a third translation here. The third version comes complete with the original Chinese text.

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