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The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Four: The Climax (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691150437)
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xThe fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel
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.Author: David Tod Roy
ISBN-10: 0691150435
ISBN-13: 9780691150437
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2011
Pages: 1032
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 2.40d
By David Tod Roy
xDavid Tod Roy (1933-2016) was professor emeritus of Chinese literature at the University of Chicago. His monumental five-volume translation of the Chin P'ing Mei was completed in 2013.
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