ENGLISHCHINESE

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Four: The Climax

By Roy , David Tod; Xiaoxiaosheng

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0-691-15043-5, 978-0-691-15043-7, 9781400838585, 1400838584
Language
englishchinese
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (23952133 bytes)
Series
Princeton library of Asian translations
Pages
959\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
960-1279 -- Fiction. Fiction. FICTION -- General.China -- History -- Song dynasty

Description

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 Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is 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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