The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) Volume 1

692 Pages·2011·3.15 MB·English

by  Xiaoxiaosheng Lanling

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Based on the edition first published in 1939 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Pinyinized and corrected for
this first Tuttle edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Xiaoxiaosheng.
[Jin ping mei ci hua. English]
The golden lotus = Jin ping mei/Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng (pseudonym);
a translation from the Chinese by Clement Egerton, with the assistance
of Shu Qingchun (Lao She); introduction by Robert Hegel —1st Tuttle ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0630-7 (ebook)
1. China—Social life and customs—960–1644—Fiction. 2. Domestic
fiction. I. Egerton, F. Clement C. (Frederick Clement Christie) II.
Lao, She, 1899–1966. III. Title. IV. Title: Jin ping mei.
PL2698.H73C513 2011
895.1’346—dc22 2010049040

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