Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One The Gathering

Name: Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One The Gathering
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ISBN: 9780691016146

ISBN-10: 0691016143

ISBN-13: 9780691016146

Edition: 1993 (Abridged)

Authors: David Tod Roy

List price: $42.00

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In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famousChin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel 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. This work, 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.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.81" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English

David Tod Roy is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago, where he has studied the "Chin P'ing Mei" and taught it in his classes since 1967.