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Du Shiniang
premiered 2006
Du Shiniang (杜十娘) is a popular story and theatre plot in China. It exists as a Yue opera, as a Sichuan opera, and also as a 2006 "hybrid" Chinese-language western-style opera in the repertoire of the China Central Opera. The plot concerns the prostitute Du Shiniang, Miss Tenth-Daughter Du, who falls in love with a literati, Li Jia. "Du Shiniang Angrily Sinks a Treasure Chest" is a short parody novel by Ming dynasty novelist Feng Menglong, and it is one of the most familiar sources to most modern readers when it comes to this story.
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