Golden Lotus, Paperback by Lanling, Xiaoxiaosheng; Egerton, Clement; Kelvin, ...
by Xiaoxiaosheng Lanling
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Golden Lotus, Paperback by Lanling, Xiaoxiaosheng; Egerton, Clement; Kelvin, Vincent, ISBN 1507786018, ISBN-13 9781507786017, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 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 com
- Publisher: CreateSpace
- Year: 2015
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781507786017
- Condition: Fine
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