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A Dream of Wind and Moon
A Dream of Wind and Moon is the first Chinese novel set entirely in the brothels of a real city, Yangzhou in the 1840s. Five sworn brothers spend their money, health and lives on the courtesans of the town; the author, who says he wasted his own youth there, shows their ruin with sympathy and grim clarity. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. It is one of the long narratives that shaped Chinese fiction, full of household detail, comedy and grief, and it reads straight through like any great novel. Few of these novels have ever been available in complete English form, and this edition lets English readers follow the whole story from the first chapter to the last.
