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ISBN
9781507785843
Book Title
Golden Lotus
Item Length
9in
Publisher
CreateSpace
Publication Year
2015
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.3in
Author
Xiaoxiaosheng Lanling
Genre
Fiction
Topic
General
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
33.8 Oz
Number of Pages
580 Pages

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"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced."-Pearl S. BuckA 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.

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Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1507785844
ISBN-13
9781507785843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Golden Lotus
Author
Xiaoxiaosheng Lanling
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
580 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
33.8 Oz

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Series
The Golden Lotus Ser.

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