Author: Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 9780804847766
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck 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 wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her main weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. It fields a host of vivid characters, each seeking advantage in a corrupt world. The author of The Golden Lotus is Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, whose name, a pseudonym, means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling." His great work, written in the late Ming but set in the Song Dynasty, is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song and sampling different social registers, from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats, in order to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who situates the novel for contemporary readers and explains its greatness as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition. This translation contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The translation has been pinyinized and corrected.
Golden Lotus Volume 1
Author: Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 9780804847766
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck 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 wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her main weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. It fields a host of vivid characters, each seeking advantage in a corrupt world. The author of The Golden Lotus is Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, whose name, a pseudonym, means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling." His great work, written in the late Ming but set in the Song Dynasty, is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song and sampling different social registers, from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats, in order to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who situates the novel for contemporary readers and explains its greatness as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition. This translation contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The translation has been pinyinized and corrected.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 9780804847766
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck 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 wife, Pan Jinlian, literally "Golden Lotus." In her desire to influence her husband and, through him, control the other wives, concubines, and entire household, she uses sex as her main weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. It fields a host of vivid characters, each seeking advantage in a corrupt world. The author of The Golden Lotus is Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, whose name, a pseudonym, means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling." His great work, written in the late Ming but set in the Song Dynasty, is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song and sampling different social registers, from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats, in order to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who situates the novel for contemporary readers and explains its greatness as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition. This translation contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The translation has been pinyinized and corrected.
The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei
Author: Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691126197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691126197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One
Author:
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084763X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The first volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the first 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. With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (1010) and Don Quixote (1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. Although its importance in the history of Chinese narrative has long been recognized, the technical virtuosity of the author, which is more reminiscent of the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, or the Nabokov of Lolita than anything in the earlier Chinese fiction tradition, has not yet received adequate recognition. This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. This translation and its annotation aim 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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084763X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The first volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the first 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. With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (1010) and Don Quixote (1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. Although its importance in the history of Chinese narrative has long been recognized, the technical virtuosity of the author, which is more reminiscent of the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, or the Nabokov of Lolita than anything in the earlier Chinese fiction tradition, has not yet received adequate recognition. This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. This translation and its annotation aim 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.
The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P'ing Mei
Hua Song
Author: Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN: 9781592650439
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.
Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN: 9781592650439
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.
The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P_ing Mei: The gathering
Author: Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691016143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691016143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.
The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin Pʻing Mei: The aphrodisiac
Author: Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691069326
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691069326
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hong Kong on Air
Author: Muhammad Cohen
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
ISBN: 9889979977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
As the Hong Kong handover boom fizzles into the Asian economic bust, a young American couple's marriage and their careers tumble into a maze of television news, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie.
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
ISBN: 9889979977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
As the Hong Kong handover boom fizzles into the Asian economic bust, a young American couple's marriage and their careers tumble into a maze of television news, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie.
The New Asian Home
Author: Kendra Langeteig
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423610366
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The New Asian Homeby Kendra Langeteig profiles 23 fascinating and original American homes inspired by the ancient architectural traditions of Asia. Designed by some of today's foremost architects and designers, principles fundamental to the serene aesthetics of classic Asian design - balance, harmony, connection with nature - are reinterpreted for the Western home.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423610366
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The New Asian Homeby Kendra Langeteig profiles 23 fascinating and original American homes inspired by the ancient architectural traditions of Asia. Designed by some of today's foremost architects and designers, principles fundamental to the serene aesthetics of classic Asian design - balance, harmony, connection with nature - are reinterpreted for the Western home.
The Dragon and the Crown
Author: Stanley S.K. Kwan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622099556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In his autobiography Stanley S.K. Kwan discusses his roots, Hong Kong after the War, Hang Seng Bank, the new China and home and country.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622099556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In his autobiography Stanley S.K. Kwan discusses his roots, Hong Kong after the War, Hang Seng Bank, the new China and home and country.