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

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• Recommended by PRI’s The World as one of the summer’s best works in translation.
  
  

  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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