Characters in Jin Ping Mei

Author: Meng Chao (Author), Zhang Guangyu (Illustrator)
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: If "Dream of the Red Chamber" portrays the decline of aristocratic families with sorrow and desolation; "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" depicts the complex internal struggles after the massacre of peasants by warlords; then "Jin Ping Mei" should be said to vividly portrays the true-to-life picture of the landlord and tycoon class with its intricate and winding depiction. The characters in "Jin Ping Mei" are either unscrupulous petty criminals or vulgar women obsessed with sexual desires. However, through their expressions, laughter, and tears, their joys and sorrows, it becomes clear how this society is so licentious and shameless, how it preys on the common people, and how it maintains and expands its power, stretching on endlessly, as if with no end in sight.