The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One: by David Tod Roy

By David Tod Roy

In this primary of a deliberate five-volume set, David Roy presents a whole and annotated translation of the well-known Chin P'ing Mei, an nameless sixteenth-century chinese language novel that makes a speciality of the household lifetime of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly cellular service provider in a provincial city, who keeps a harem of six better halves and concubines. This paintings, identified basically for its erotic realism, is additionally a landmark within the improvement of the narrative paintings form--not merely from a particularly chinese language point of view yet in a world-historical context.

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