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Title: Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics) by Shen Fu, Leonard Pratt, Chiang Su-Hui, Fu Shen ISBN: 0-14-044429-7 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A passionate and romantic story
Comment: "Six Records" (also known as "Six Chapters of a Floating Life"), c. 1805, is an extraordinarily frank autobiography that is totally unprecedented and unparalleled in the history of Chinese literature. It describes the life of the author Shen Fu and his beloved wife, Ch'en Yun (1763-1803), in extremely revealing detail. The intimacy and joy shared by the couple are as unusual by normal standards of Chinese married life as is the author's daringness in revealing them to others. Their close, playful relationship stands in defiant opposition to the staid decorum of married life expected by Confucian ideology.
A thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring read. Ch'en Yun is a woman ahead of her time who admirably balances her love of learning and passion for life with her duties and obligations as a traditional Chinese wife.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent book!!
Comment: a very, very good book to get to know the everyday life of late imperial Chinese!
Rating: 5
Summary: A charming and touching autobiography of a poor scholar
Comment: This is a most charming and touching story of a poor Chinese scholar-painter struggling to make a decent living under poverty and mounting debts. In his autobiography, Shen Fu shares with us his experiences, his love for a talented wife and other simple things in life, his family and friends, and travels throughout Manchu China. Despite mounting poverty, he has great passion for living and these records of his experiences and impressions are as relevant to us as it were to him 200 years ago. A highly recommended book and a definite "must-read" over the weekend.
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Title: The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1) by Cao Xueqin, Hsueh-Chin Tsao, David Hawkes, O Kao, John Minford, Hsueh-Ch'in Ts'ao ISBN: 0140442936 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1974 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei by David Tod Roy ISBN: 0691016143 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: The Travels of Lao Tsan by Liu Tieh Yun, Harold Shadick, Liu Tieh-Yun, E. Liu ISBN: 0231072554 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Lao Toai-Toai Ning, Ning L. T'Ai-T'ai, Ida Pruitt, Lao T'Ai-T'ai Ning ISBN: 0804706069 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Death of Woman Wang, The by Jonathan D. Spence ISBN: 014005121X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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