The golden lotus = Jin ping mei
1st Tuttle ed.
by Xiaoxiaosheng.
Contributors: Egerton, F. Clement C. (Frederick Clement Christie) ; Lao, She, 1899-1966.
Year/Format: 2011, Book , 2 vols. ;
Subjects: •China--Social life and customs--960-1644--Fiction.
•Domestic fiction.
2 copies Reference only - not holdable
Summary(英文简介)
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck (赛珍珠评语)
A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust,The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, it has also been denigrated as a "dirty" book for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a wealthy, young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth w (...read more)
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1st Tuttle ed.
by Xiaoxiaosheng.
Contributors: Egerton, F. Clement C. (Frederick Clement Christie) ; Lao, She, 1899-1966.
Year/Format: 2011, Book , 2 vols. ;
Subjects: •China--Social life and customs--960-1644--Fiction.
•Domestic fiction.
2 copies Reference only - not holdable
Summary(英文简介)
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck (赛珍珠评语)
A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust,The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature and one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age, it has also been denigrated as a "dirty" book for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a wealthy, young, dissolute, and politically connected merchant, and his marriage to a fifth w (...read more)
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