Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four
Title:
Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four
Author:
Series (if any):
Princeton Library of Asian Translations
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
1030 pages, 40 line illus.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:
9780691169828
EAN:
9780691169828
Publication Date:
06/10/2015
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
1420
Dimensions (mm):
158 x 236 x 57
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£38.76
2 copies in stock
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Description
This is the fourth and penultimate 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
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