Zhuchun yuan (traditional Chinese: 駐春園; simplified Chinese: 驻春园),[a] also translated into English as Dwelling in Spring Garden[1] or The Garden of Spring Residence,[2] is a Chinese caizi jiaren romance novel from the 18th-century during the Qing dynasty. The novel was written by Wuhang Yeke (吳航野客), a writer under a pseudonym. The novel was published during the Qianlong period in 1783 and it consists of 24 chapters.[3]
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Another edition of the novel, collection of the Harvard University
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The opening of the novel
Notes
edit- ^ Also known in Chinese as Zhuchun yuan xiaoshi (traditional Chinese: 駐春園小史; simplified Chinese: 驻春园小史).
Citations
edit- ^ Brokaw, Cynthia J. (2020). Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Brill. p. 490.
- ^ McMahon, Keith (1995). Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction. Duke University Press. p. 118.
- ^ "《驻春园》". 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 (in Chinese).