The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

Volume One: The Gathering

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, Far Eastern, Central & South American
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Author: David Tod Roy ISBN: 9781400847631
Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication: May 2, 2013
Imprint: Princeton University Press Language: English
Author: David Tod Roy
ISBN: 9781400847631
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication: May 2, 2013
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Language: English

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. 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. 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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