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Author |
: Feng Jicai |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 1994-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824816064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824816063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by : Feng Jicai
This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.
Author |
: Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng |
Publisher |
: Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 640 |
Release |
: 2016-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804847762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804847766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Golden Lotus Volume 1 by : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
"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 |
: Alfred Barrett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1901 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105022362995 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Alfred Barrett
Author |
: Gladys Edson Locke |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015031385589 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Gladys Edson Locke
Author |
: Graham Clifford |
Publisher |
: Tideline Tales |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2018-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780473466299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0473466295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voyage of the Golden Lotus by : Graham Clifford
This book pays tribute to the tenacity and sailing skills of four young New Zealanders who sailed an epic voyage in their Chinese junk Golden Lotus in 1962. On their 8,500 mile journey from Hong Kong to New Zealand they confronted violent storms in the South China Sea, Indian Ocean and Tasman Sea. They challenged poisonous and powerful Komodo dragons on an uninhabited Indonesian island; encountered mid-ocean sharks of mean proportions; overcame the many navigational hazards of the Barrier Reef Coast of Australia. Brian Clifford, master Navigator at age 23, orchestrated every aspect of this classic adventure. Skillful celestial navigation, adventurous spirits and the raw energy of a youthful crew combined with total self reliance to win the day.
Author |
: Chin pʻing mei |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000015150455 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Chin pʻing mei
Author |
: Xiaoxiaosheng |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 1957 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030126031 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Xiaoxiaosheng
Author |
: Edward Greey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1883 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32435055631998 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Edward Greey
Author |
: Shizhen Wang |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1955 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X001042559 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Golden Lotus by : Shizhen Wang
Author |
: Andrew Schonebaum |
Publisher |
: Modern Language Association |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2022-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603294133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603294139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus) by : Andrew Schonebaum
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.