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Love Amid Hills and Waters
On a spring outing in the hills, a young traveller escapes the crowds and meets a beauty. A painted fan, a borrowed poem and a chance meeting become a love that must survive rivals, slander and separation. Love Amid Hills and Waters is a graceful romance of landscapes and longing. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Like the best scholar-and-beauty novels it moves quickly, with disguises, poems exchanged in secret, examinations, villains and a hard-won happy ending. These romances were the popular reading of their day, devoured by young men and women, imitated on the stage and admired abroad, and they remain charming, quick and surprising.
