Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin Ping Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution
1 min readAt Last, an English Translation of “The Plum in the Golden Vase”: LARB
We live at a time of globalization, and a time of a cosmopolitan, global literature. So it is genuinely bizarre that the first complete English translation of the Chin Ping Mei, one of the world’s great novels, if not simply the greatest, was released only last month.