Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume One

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 to...