Abstract
Second volume of the author'd ten volume project (2012-2021) of the complete fully annotated Czech translation of the novel, the founding work of the classic modern Chinese novel. The text under translation (chapters 11-20 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.
Translator newly introduces the net of heroes, their relations and their social status. Ending Appendix I. contains transator's synopsis of introductory ten chapters