Chinese Literature: Read Before the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic ...
Chinese Literature: Read Before the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic ...
F Huberty James
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Perhaps this very ban >haft Increased' the taste for such books, at any rate therfe" tean abundance of them and they are devoured with afc much iest as in other tends.' The Imperial Library is supposed to contain only standard works, and yet in its Catalogue there are the titles of fourteen novels. Of course it is just possible that there are a few copies lying about outside the library, but if not, fourteen books are not so meagre an allowance if we remember that the average number of chapters... in each book is seventy-seven. Even emperors and princes may differ in their taste as to works of fiction as well as in some other things, for while one sovereign of the present dynasty prohibited a novel called "The Golden Vase," because he thought it unfit to strengthen the virtue of his subjects, his noble brother made an elegant translation of it into the Manchu language for the edification of his own kindred. " The Golden Vase " is an artistic performance of the highest order, the beauty of its style, combined with its racy stories of the dissolute manners of the people under the Ming dynasty, have given it great popularity.
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