The Peony Pavilion Research In American Sinology

The Peony Pavilion is one of the greatest work in Chinese opera. During the400years after it comes out, the spread through text or the spread on stage has not been stopped. As it stands for the the Kun opera, it has the important value both in text and the stage. The research about Peony Pavilion is mainly about the thinking, love and sexual passion, while the American research has some new ideas on it because of the spreading of Peony Pavilion in the western word.The first part is about the theme of the Peony Pavilion,which I pick up2paper written by Maram Epstein and Xia Zhiqing. The second part is about the interpretation of "dream",which I pick up2paper written by Wai-yee Li and Tina Lu. In the third part,I pick up2paper about the transmission and influence it has in ’Tao Hua Fan’and Qing Dynasty. The last part of this paper is the show on American and Europe Stage, which can help us a lot to understand the spread of Peony Pavilion. This paper has find out that the ways American researchers use in the research of Peony Pavilion by translate some paper of the research of Peony Pavilion, that is the view of "others" and the view of Chinese tradition, which both contribute to the research of Peony Pavilion.