From AwardAnnals
Results of the National Book Award in the year 1977. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance
Chieh-Yuan Tung, Li-Li Chen
This twelfth century masterpiece suffered virtual oblivion from the late fourteenth century until 1912, when it was rediscovered by the great sinologist Wang Kuo-wei who helped restore it to its preeminent position in Chinese literature. Comprising 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller, it is an elaboration of the T´ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831).
