Description

A tale of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, this traditional novel—admired in its own period for its literary qualities and stinging indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age—lays clean the rivalries inside a rich household while chronicling its increase and fall.This version includes a new introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, and offers the full text as interpreted by Clement Egerton using the help of Shu Qingchun, who as Lao She turned among the most notable Chinese authors of the twentieth-century.