The Plum In The Golden Vase Or Chin P Ing Mei The Gathering

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780804847766
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Lotus Volume 1 written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
ISBN 13 : 9780691126197
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084763X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9781592650439
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hua Song written by Suchen Christine Lim and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.

Author : Paola Voci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136960015
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China on Video written by Paola Voci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691069326
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin Pʻing Mei: The aphrodisiac written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katharine Augusta Carl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Author : Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691016143
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P_ing Mei: The gathering written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

Author : Siu Leung Li
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622096034
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera written by Siu Leung Li and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchantment of the figure of the "male dan" – female impersonator – remains a residual element in the cultural imagination of many contemporary Chinese societies. The various kinds of interpretive possibilities in the commanding tradition of cross-dressing Chinese opera have yet to be examined in-depth. In order to discuss "mistaken identity" and gender issues as they relate to cross-dressing on the Chinese operatic stage, this book examines a wide range of materials, including traditional dramatic texts, modern literary writings, critical writings (for example, quhua), opera paintings, and contemporary movies. The book explores gendering and gender differences that are constructed, reproduced, dismantled, and contested in this particularly rich site of Chinese culture.