The Golden Lotus Volume 1: Jin Ping Mei
A Fiction, Cultural, Classics book. Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune...
A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, this classic novel—admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age—lays bare the rivalries within a wealthy family while chronicling its rise and fall.This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, and contains the complete text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, who as Lao She became one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
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- Pages: 640 pages
- ISBN: 9780804841702 / 804841705
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Evil and good meet with their due reward. Good fortune and ill luck walk side by side. But he who never walks the wrong path, need have no fear when comes the summons in the night. Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Golden Lotus Volume 1: Jin Ping Mei //
Pluses:- translator was erudite himself and it shows- history, culture, mentality of China. Author uses historical setting to show vices of his contemporaries- rivalry of wives and servants- sometimes hilarious purple prose- presentation of chinese people's life during Song/Ming dynasty- showing corruption of civil servantsMinuses-... The only reason I'm giving this three stars is because the translation job is so woefully inept. I think this was based off an earlier translation that...well, editorialised and marginalised a lot of elements. I can tell there's an epic Chinese novel in there somewhere, it's just buried under the translator's prudishness. tl;dr: go... good
