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Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan Fiction_Gift_Guide Why you don’t have aFocusing on two late Ming or early Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an impostor or twin) be identified? Both plays are chuanqi, representatives of a monumental genre that represents Chinese dramatic literature at its most complex: