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Total pages original book: 520
Includes a PDF summary of 43 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 33M23S (8.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: In this first of a planned five-volume set, 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 Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, 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 the narrative art form-not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Fiction, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800, Classic Books & Novels, Fiction In Translation, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literary Studies: General