Ascribed to a mysterious "Lanling xiaoxiao sheng" at its first publication in the early 1600s, the great novel Jin Ping Mei has been attributed to a succession of Ming personalities. Here a hitherto ...

The sixteenth-century Chinese vernacular novel Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 was a groundbreaking work for its vivid presentation of the domestic life of women in an affluent merchant household, a topic seldom ...

The Golden Lotus: Jin Ping Mei, Volume 1 Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. from the Chinese by Clement Egerton, with Shu Qingchun. Tuttle Classics, $24.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-8048-4170-2 ...

The claims of a village scholar pose a choice for officials: money or morality.