1987 · Cambridge MA and London
by Widmer, Ellen
Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1987. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 324, [6]; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine; faded owner's stamp of Norman Jacobs on endpaper with a few other ownership marks, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. "Twenty years after the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644, Ming loyalism was still a strong political and intellectual resistance to the new Manchu order. Shui-hu hou-chuan, first published in 1664, is the work of Ch'en Ch'en, a man loyal to the Ming, who used this novel as a way of giving covert expression to the frustrations of those times.
(Inventory #: 65338)