Golden Lotus By Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

Golden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy,
unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and
ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth wife. Jinlian
is not content to accept her position, however, and
schemes to dominate her husband and improve her
standing in society by using sex as her weapon.
As the story unfolds, Ximen Qing embarks on a series
of sexual conquests and Pan Jinlian exploits her
husband’s lust, ultimately causing the downfall of the entire family. The story’s dramatic climax
vividly portrays the lengths to which ambitious people will go to gain influence. It also lays bare
the rivalries within wealthy Chinese families of privilege while chronicling their rise and fall.
Iconic in China, Golden Lotus has been alternately banned and lauded for centuries, all the while
being avidly read as a popular page-turner. This new Tuttle edition, now available in a single
unabridged volume, has a superb introduction by Robert Hegel.

Clement Egerton was at various times a senior officer in the British army, an Anglican bishop, and awriter, editor and photographer. He is best known for his enduring translation of Golden Lotus.
Shu Qingchun became famous as the Beijing novelist and dramatist Lao She whose best-known work is Rickshaw Boy. He was killed, or committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution.
Robert Hegel is a specialist in Chinese literature and the former Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of Chinese Washington at University in St. Louis, Missouri.

$29.99 paperback
$39.95 (CAD)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8048-5672-0
August
Literature
Tuttle Publishing
5 1/8 X 8 ● 1,280 pages