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Golden Lotus: A Saga of Ambition, Murder and Lust in Medieval China (Unabridg...
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- ISBN
- 9780804856720
- Book Title
- Golden Lotus : a Saga of Ambition, Murder and Lust in Medieval China (Unabridged Edition)
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Erotica / General, Asian / Chinese, Sagas
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 36 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1280 Pages
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"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, joining the Four Great Classics: Journey to the West, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms , and Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone ), and is recognized as one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Golden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy, unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth wife. Jinlian is not content to accept her position and schemes to dominate her husband and improve her standing in society by using sex as her weapon. As the story unfolds, Ximen Qing embarks on a series sexual conquests and Pan Jinlian exploits her husband's lust, ultimately causing the downfall of the entire family. The story's dramatic climax vividly portrays the lengths to which ambitious people will go to gain influence. It also lays bare the rivalries within wealthy families of privilege while chronicling their rise and fall. Iconic in China, Golden Lotus has been alternately banned and lauded for centuries, all the while still avidly read as a popular page-turner. This new Tuttle edition, now available in a single unabridged volume, includes a superb introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who explains the book's importance as the first novel in the Chinese tradition attributable to a single author.
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
ISBN-10
0804856729
ISBN-13
9780804856720
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16058621251
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Book Title
Golden Lotus : a Saga of Ambition, Murder and Lust in Medieval China (Unabridged Edition)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Erotica / General, Asian / Chinese, Sagas
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
1280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
36 Oz
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"As an artistic production, this work belongs...among the highest of its class." -- Berthold Laufer, Anthropologist and Sinologist, " Golden Lotus was without precedent in China and was not to be equaled in sophistication...for another two centuries." -- Robert Hegel, Scholar of Chinese literature, "[ Golden Lotus is] a landmark in the development of the narrative art form--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical contex....noted for its surprisingly modern technique and with the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (c. 1010) and Don Quixote (1605, 1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature." -- David Tod Roy, Scholar of Chinese literature, "[ Golden Lotus is] the most famous of the novels of manners of the Ming dynasty [and is] in effect a condemnation of the whole ruling class." -- Lu Xun, Chinese writer, essayist and poet, "[ Golden Lotus is one of the] Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel." -- Andrew Plaks, Scholar of Chinese literature
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2023
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