Roulin Wai Shi: Chinese-English Parallel Text (Complete 3 Volumes)

Author: Wu Jingzi
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: The Story of the Stone is an outstanding novel from ancient China, written by Wu Jingzi in the mid-18th century. The book portrays the materialistic and hypocritical spiritual appearances of various types of scholars, exposing the corruption and darkness of the feudal society, and offers a profound critique and satire of the imperial examination system and feudal rituals. The Story of the Stone is renowned for its concise language and highly successful character portrayals, making it a masterpiece of classical Chinese satirical literature. This book adopts the English translation of the fifty-five chapters by the renowned Chinese literary translators Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, which is considered the most accurate full English translation of The Story of the Stone currently available.