An Experimental Study of Wu Weiye's "Remote and Deep" in Chinese Opera

Abstract

During the transition period  of the Ming and Qing dynasties when the going gets tough, many marginalized scholars in an awkward situation chose to create opera to comfort their mourning for the former dynasty. This essay takes Wu Weiye and his play Mo Ling Chun as an example, and discusses the emotional sadness in the work and the subtle view of the literati on opera, in an attempt to show the embrace of literature in the context of objective historical conditions.