It takes the average reader 9 hours and 5 minutes to read The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng by Alison Hardie
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The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected...
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng by Alison Hardie is 535 pages long, and a total of 136,425 words.
This makes it 181% the length of the average book. It also has 167% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 25 minutes to read The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng aloud.
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