The Plum in the Golden Vase or, "Chin P'ing Mei": Volume One: The Gathering: Gathering v. 1 (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)

by David Tod Roy (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $41.95

  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.