The Plum in the Golden Vase - Or Chin P'ing Mei - Paperback - 1997

Provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin Ping Mei, an anonymous sixteenthcentury Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsimen Ching, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines.
Year of publication: 1997
Pagination: 520 pages, black white illustrations
Format: Paperback
Serie: Princeton Library of Asian Translations