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• Title : The Plum in the Golden Vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei, Vol. 1: The Gathering
• Author : Princeton University Press
• Rating : 4.50 (156 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-4-20
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 724 Pages
• Asin : 0691069328
• Language : English

This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.. In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy pr

This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
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In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines

Alternately vulgarly colloquial and comprehensively erudite, the translation surpasses earlier efforts by Clement Egerton et al. From Library Journal This first masterful volume of a projected five-volume translation of one of China's most important classical novels will be its most complete rendition in English. of Tennessee Libs., KnoxvilleCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. The copious notes, scholarly and philosophical introduction, 60-page cast of characters, and commentary render it indispensable for the scholar of Chinese literature as well.- D.E. Originally published around 1618, this 100-chapter novel unravels the greed and political and sexual exploits of a Sung dynasty merchant. With its 40 period woodblock illustrations, this book is essential in any collection of world literature. Perushek, Univ. in that it translates all the verse and prose as well. . Infused with eroticism and high irony, the story is often seen to be a microcosm of 17th-century Chinese society

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