The Climax. (e. Book, Paperback and Hardcover)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 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 form—not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world- historical context. This 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.
The Plum in the Golden Vase or. Our eBook editions are available from these online vendors: Amazon Kindle Store; Apple iBooks; Barnes & Noble Nook Store. ![]() 《古典文学极品收藏-梦梅馆定本-金瓶梅词话-影印版》(The.Plum.In.The.Golden.Vase.PHOTOCOPY.iNt.EBOOK) 资源类别 资料-书籍杂志 发布时间 2008-04-05. The Plum in the Golden Vase or. Kindle eBook. it can be semantically construed as The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Plum Blossoms in a Golden Vase. ![]() 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 1. Reviews: "[A] book of manners for the debauched. Its readers in the late Ming period likely hid it under their bedcovers."- -Amy Tan, New York Times Book Review. Praise for the previous volumes: "[I]t is time to remind ourselves that The Plum in the Golden Vase is not just about sex, whether the numerous descriptions of sexual acts throughout the novel be viewed as titillating, harshly realistic, or, in Mr. Roy's words, intended 'to express in the most powerful metaphor available to him the author's contempt for the sort of persons who indulge in them.' The novel is a sprawling panorama of life and times in urban China, allegedly set safely in the Sung dynasty, but transparently contemporary to the author's late sixteenth- century world, as scores of internal references demonstrate. The eight hundred or so men, women, and children who appear in the book cover a breath- taking variety of human types, and encompass pretty much every imaginable mood and genre- -from sadism to tenderness, from light humor to philosophical musings, from acute social commentary to outrageous satire."- -Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books. Praise for previous volumes: "Reading Roy's translation is a remarkable experience."- -Robert Chatain, Chicago Tribune Review of Books. More reviews. Table of Contents. Other Princeton books authored or coauthored by David Tod Roy: Series: Subject Areas. Books, audiobooks and videos for libraries. In this third volume of a planned five- volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth- century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His- men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant 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 narrative art—not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but also in a world- historical context. Written during the second half of the sixteenth century and first published in 1. The Plum in the Golden Vase is noted for its surprisingly modern technique. With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (ca. Don Quixote (1. 60. Although its importance in the history of Chinese narrative has long been recognized, the technical virtuosity of the author, which is more reminiscent of the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, or the Nabokov of Lolita than anything in earlier Chinese fiction, has not yet received adequate recognition. This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. This translation and its annotation aim 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. Replete with convincing portrayals of the darker side of human nature, it should appeal to anyone interested in a compelling story, compellingly told.
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