{"first_publish_date": "July 13, 1994", "title": "Farewell My Concubine", "covers": [42625, 3080148, 4657127, 42624], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Prostitutes have no heart; actors have no morals."}, "key": "/works/OL277413W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL714113A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL578081A"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Prostitutes have no heart; actors have no morals."}, "page": "First sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Chinese Operas", "Gay men", "Fiction", "China, fiction", "Fiction, general", "Male actors", "Divorce", "Drama", "Chinese literature", "Literature", "Translations into English", "History", "Chinese Love stories", "Chinese fiction", "Translations in English"], "lc_classifications": ["PL2877.P48 P2713 1994"], "dewey_number": ["895.1/352"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. An absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-25T12:11:08.383061"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-02T08:29:09.952975"}}