The Plum In The Golden Vase Or Chin P Ing Mei Volume Two

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804847762

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Golden Lotus Volume 1 by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

"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 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.

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0691126194

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The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei by Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691169828

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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four by Anonim Pdf

The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691169835

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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five by Anonim Pdf

The fifth and final volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the fifth and final 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.

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780691125343

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The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P_ing Mei: The aphrodisiac by Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

Author : David L. Rolston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860470

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How to Read the Chinese Novel by David L. Rolston Pdf

Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, presents translations of writings taken from the commentary editions of six of the most important novels of pre-modern China. These translations consist mainly of tu-fa, or "how-to-read" essays, which demonstrate sensitivity and depth of analysis both in the treatment of general problems concerning the reading of any work of fiction and in more focused discussions of particular compositional details in individual novels. The translations were produced by pioneers in the study of this form of fiction criticism in the West: Shuen-fu Lin, Andrew H. Plaks, David T. Roy, John C. Y. Wang, and Anthony C. Yu. Four introductory essays by Andrew H. Plaks and the editor address the historical background for this type of criticism, its early development, its formal features, recurrent terminology, and major interpretive strategies. A goal of this volume is to aid in the rediscovery of this traditional Chinese poetics of fiction and help eliminate some of the distortions encountered in the past by the imposition of Western theories of fiction on Chinese novels. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : 0691069328

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The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin Pʻing Mei: The aphrodisiac by Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400847631

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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One by Anonim Pdf

The first volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the first 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. With the possible exception of The Tale of Genji (1010) and Don Quixote (1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature. 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 the earlier Chinese fiction tradition, 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.

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804850453

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The Golden Lotus Volume 2 by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." —Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and, famously, Chinese erotica, The Golden Lotus (also known as The Plum in the Golden Vase) 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, this Chinese classic has also been denigrated for its sexual frankness. It centers on Ximen Qing, a 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 primary weapon. The Golden Lotus lays bare the rivalries within this wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall. TThis great work of classic Chinese literature, from an author whose pseudonym means "Scoffing Scholar of Lanling", is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song. It samples different social registers from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. Little-known in the west but utterly iconic amongst the Chinese classics in worldly circles, reading The Golden Lotus promises both an astute reflection on human tendencies and a sumptuous, intoxicating take on Chinese erotica. This new edition: Features a superb new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who explains its importance as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition 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) Ensures translation has been pinyinized and corrected for this new edition

Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : 0691070776

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The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin Pʻing Mei by Xiaoxiaosheng Pdf

A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1603295445

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Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus) by Andrew Schonebaum Pdf

The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and emotional realism, the novel centers on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and material objects of a Ming dynasty city. In part a social, political, and moral critique, the novel reflects on hierarchical power relations of family and state and the materialism of life at the time. The essays in this volume provide ideas for teaching the novel using a variety of approaches, from questions of genre, intertextuality, and the novel's reception to material culture, family and social dynamics, and power structures in sexual relations. Insights into the novel's representation of Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, legal culture, class, slavery, and obscenity are offered throughout the volume.

Author : Paola Voci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136960017

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China on Video by Paola Voci Pdf

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media, new media, media anthropology, visual arts, contemporary China area studies, and cultural studies--this book reveals the existence of a creative, humorous, but also socially and politically critical "China on video", which locates itself outside of the intellectual discourse surrounding both auteur cinema and digital art. By describing smaller-screen movies, moviemaking and viewing as light realities, Voci points to their "insignificant" weight in terms of production costs, distribution size, profit gains, intellectual or artistic ambitions, but also their deep meaning in defining an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world. The author proposes that lightness is a concept that can usefully be deployed to describe the moving image, beyond the specificity of recent new media developments and which can, in fact, help us rethink previous cinematic practices in broad terms both spatially and temporally.

Author : Keizō Hino,日野啓三
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564786036

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Isle of Dreams by Keizō Hino,日野啓三 Pdf

Sakai works for a construction company that builds high rise buildings in Tokyo, but gets introduced to parts of the city he's never seen after meeting a mysterious young woman.

Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1592650430

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Hua Song by Suchen Christine Lim Pdf

Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.

Author : Charlie Chin
Publisher : Children's Book Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bilingual books
ISBN : 0892391480

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巾幗英雄花木蘭 by Charlie Chin Pdf

Legend of Hua Mu Lan who goes to war disguised as a man to save the family honor and becomes a great general.