Description: Product Description : The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five: The Dissolution (Princeton Library of Asian Translations, 116) The fifth and final volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fifth and final volume in David Roys celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature The Plum in the Golden Vase or Chin Ping Mei is an anonymous sixteenthcentury work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsimen Ching 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 formnot only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a worldhistorical contextThis 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( it is an used product )
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Brand: Princeton University Press
UPC: 9780691169835
MPN: 40 line illus.
Model No: 40 line illus.
Country of Origin: USA United States
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Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 6X1.25X9
ISBN-10: 691169837
ISBN-13: 9780691169835
SKU: SONG0691169837
No. of Pages: 624
Type: Books
Book Title: Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five : the Dissolution
Number of Pages: 624 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Classics, Asian / Chinese, Historical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 30.1 Oz
Author: David Tod Roy
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Book Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
