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Download or read book The Plum in the Golden Vase Or Chin P Ing Mei written by Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant.

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