Jinxiang ting (traditional Chinese: 錦香亭; simplified Chinese: 锦香亭)[1] or Jinxiang ting zhuan (traditional Chinese: 錦香亭傳; simplified Chinese: 锦香亭传), translated into English as Jinxiang Pavilion,[2] the Pavilion of Brocade and Aroma[3] and several other translated titles,[a] is a Chinese romantic novel of the caizi jiaren genre from the late 17th-century to the early 18th-century.[4] Its authorship is ascribed to a writer named Su An Zhu Ren (素庵主人) or Gu Wu Su An Zhu Ren (古吳素庵主人), which is a pseudonym.
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Title page of the novel -
Pages from chapter three of the novel
Notes
[edit]- ^ Other English translated titles of the novel include Pavilion of Embroidered Fragrance and a few others.
Citations
[edit]- ^ McMahon, Keith (1995). Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction. Duke University Press. p. 310.
- ^ Sieber, Patricia; Llamas, Regina (2022). How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology. Columbia University Press. p. 59.
- ^ Salmon, Claudine, ed. (2013). Literary Migrations: Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17th-20th Centuries). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 144. ISBN 9789814414326.
- ^ Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews. Vol. 25. Coda Press. 2003. p. 63.
many works of the scholar - beauty fiction such as Haoqiu zhuan and Jinxiang ting from the early Qing period.
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