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By David Tod Roy

In this primary of a deliberate five-volume set, David Roy offers an entire and annotated translation of the well-known Chin P'ing Mei, an nameless sixteenth-century chinese language novel that makes a speciality of the family lifetime of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly cellular service provider in a provincial city, who continues a harem of six better halves and concubines. This paintings, recognized basically for its erotic realism, is additionally a landmark within the improvement of the narrative paintings form--not in basic terms from a in particular chinese language standpoint yet in a world-historical context.

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Metaphor and metonymy together make up the deep grammatical armature by which the reader of the Chin P’ing Mei is led to make a whole out of discontinuous parts…. The novel must be understood according to correspondences within the text between one character and another, one scene and another, one figurative expression and another…. Once the reader has been alerted to look for such relationships he discovers that the novel is a complex fabric of recurrences. Characters, scenes, themes and metaphors return in proliferating resemblances.

The reading that is offered below is controversial, but it is put forward in the conviction that it accounts for more of the features of the text than any of the others. DESCRIPTION Before pursuing this line of interpretation any further, let me describe the Chin P’ing Mei a little more fully. 11 All of these either are the products of multiple authorship or represent the recasting of traditional bodies of material, and all of them are episodic in structure, whereas the Chin P’ing Mei, despite its length, has a tightly controlled unitary plot.

As a blueprint is an image in another form of the building for which it is the plan, so the Chin P’ing Mei transfers Chinese society into another realm, the realm of fictional language. The procedure of synecdochic transference, naming one thing in terms of another, is undertaken as a means of investigation. The author wants to define Chinese society exactly and to identify exactly the causes of its present state. As everyone knows, he finds Chinese society in a bad way. It is in a state dangerously close to ultimate disorder or decay.

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