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Verses on Flying Flowers
Two children exchange poems about falling flowers and are engaged; then war, ruin and kidnapping scatter them across China. Verses on Flying Flowers follows them through adoption, false names and hardship, until their verses lead them back to each other. 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. It is an ideal book for curious readers who want to explore Chinese literature and thought beyond the few famous titles, in a clear modern English version.
