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Cui Yingying

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Cui Yingying
Actress Chen Minjuan (陈敏娟) portraying Cui Yingying (right) in a 2016 Yue opera performance in Tianchan Theatre, Shanghai.
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCuī Yíngyíng
Wade–GilesTs'ui1 Ying2 Ying2
Cui Yingying
An illustration by Chen Hongshou
Created byYuan Zhen
In-universe information
SpouseMr. Zhang
NationalityTang
MotherLady Zheng (鄭氏)
MaidHongniang

Cui Yingying is a fictional character from "Yingying's Biography", a Chinese story by Yuan Zhen (779–831), and Romance of the Western Chamber, a Chinese play by Wang Shifu (1250–1337?).

Further reading

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  • Dong, Lorraine (1978). The Creation and Life of Cui Yingying (c. 803–1969) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington.
  • Dong, Lorraine (1981). "The Many Faces of Cui Yingying". Historical Reflections. 8 (3): 75–98. JSTOR 41298761.