The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three
Subtitle: The Aphrodisiac (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780691125343
Subjects: 16th to 18th century fiction; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary; Literary Collections; Fiction - General; Chinese; Literature: Classics; Asian and Asian American Studies; Comparative Literature; Fiction / General; General; Asian; China; Fiction; Historical fiction; History; Song dynasty, 960-1279
First sentence: Equally endowed with wealth and distinction,1 his inheritance is ample; Streams of officials, in crimson and purple, congregate at his door.