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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