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Jing Ping Mei or The Plum in the Golden Vase, Third Volume

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

Third volume of the author's ten volume project (2012 - 2021) of the complete annotated Czech translation of the novel, the founding work of the vlassic modern Chinese novel. The text under tanslation (chapter 21 - 30 of the hundred chapters text) is a critical Taiwanese photoprint of the oldest printed edition Jin Ping Mei cihua dated (signated) 1617, newly discovered in Peking at the beginning of thirties of the 20th Century.