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This is partly because all of the existing European translations are either abridged or based on an inferior recension of the text. This translation and its annotation aim to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.

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We are indebted to Professor Roy. The novel is a masterwork of Chinese fiction, and we celebrate the completion of his translation. Its readers in the late Ming period likely hid it under their bedcovers. It's a masterpiece [and] an epic scholarly achievement.

The world of the Chin Ping Mei is beautiful and dark, cheap and exalted, righteous and profane, gorgeous and lurid and stinking and glorious.

There are more than eight hundred named characters, from high officials and military commanders to peddlers and prostitutes, with actors, tailors, monks and nuns, fortunetellers, acrobats, and many others, even cats and dogs, in between. Roy helps us keep track of everyone in a fifty-six-page 'cast of characters. In the original woodblock printing of the text, characters follow one another, without punctuation, no matter their source.

Modern printings provide punctuation, but Roy goes further by devising a system of indentation and differing type sizes to set off allusions, poems, and songs. With this editorial help, the translation is actually easier to read than the original.

We are all. Roy's rendering deftly switches between registers along with the novel, carrying across both its refined language and its infamous vulgarities. Gregory, Ming Studies Roy's complete translation makes it possible for English readers everywhere to read and appreciate this work, one of the great, sophisticated masterpieces of world literature.

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