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The Two Fair Cousins
Su Youbai, a young poet, refuses a forced marriage and goes in search of a wife who can match his verses. He finds two: Bai Hongyu and her cousin Lu Mengli, who disguises herself as a young man to meet him. The Two Fair Cousins was the model scholar-and-beauty novel, translated into French in the 1820s and admired by Goethe. 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.
