Golden Lotus Volume 2
Tuttle Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-8048-4777-3 (ISBN)
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His great work, written in the late Ming but set in the Song Dynasty, is a virtuoso collection of voices and vices, mixing in poetry and song and sampling different social registers, from popular ballads to the language of bureaucrats, in order to recreate and comment mordantly on the society of the time. This edition features a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who situates the novel for contemporary readers and explains its greatness as the first single-authored novel in the Chinese tradition. This translation contains the complete, unexpurgated text as translated by Clement Egerton with the assistance of Shu Qingchun, later known as Lao She, one of the most prominent Chinese writers of the twentieth century. The translation has been pinyinized and corrected.
Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng wrote The Golden Lotus during the early years of the Wanji era (1573--1620) of the Ming Empire. Nothing certain is known of Lanling's life. Clement Egerton was at various times a senior officer in the British army, an Anglican bishop, and a writer, editor, linguist, and prolific photographer, but he is best known for his enduring translation of The Golden Lotus. Shu Qingchun boarded with Clement Egerton and his wife when he was a lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental Studies in London, but he became famous as the Beijing novelist and dramatist Lao She, whose best-known work may be Rickshaw Boy. He was killed, or committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution. Robert Hegel is the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and a professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.11.2016 |
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Verlagsort | Boston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 203 mm |
Gewicht | 612 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8048-4777-0 / 0804847770 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8048-4777-3 / 9780804847773 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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