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The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei. Vol. 2, The rivals

This is an English translation of an anonymous 16th-century Chinese novel. It focuses on the domestic life of a corrupt, upwardly-mobile merchant in a provincial town, who is noted for his conspicuous consumption of politics, money and sex

Print Book, English, ©2001
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2001