The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume 4: The Climax
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This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.The Plum in the Golden Vaseor,Chin P'ing Meiis an anonymous sixteenth-century work 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. The novel, 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.This complete and annotated translation aims to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- David Tod
Roy
Xiaoxiaosheng - Language
- English
- Series
- Princeton library of Asian translations
- ISBN
- 9781400838585
- Release date
- 2011
