Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

Anonymous

June, 2009
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14822-1
$27.50 / £19.00

"Courtesans and Opium is an unsung gem of nineteenth-century Chinese fiction. Patrick Hanan's translation is simply stunning. An enduring piece of literature." — Keith McMahon, University of Kansas

"This novel serves as a remarkably clear window into an age long gone and a place irrevocably changed. It richly deserves to be widely studied, and Patrick Hanan thankfully 'discovers' it for the academic world." — Robert E. Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• East Asian Studies

Series

• Weatherhead Books on Asia

About the Author

Patrick Hanan specializes in the study and translation of Chinese fiction from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. He has published several books, including Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, which contains a study of this novel. His translations include Silent Operas, The Carnal Prayer Mat, A Tower for the Summer Heat, The Sea of Regret, The Money Demon, and Falling in Love.

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