Volume 41, Number 12 · June 23, 1994

Remembrance of Ming's Past

By Jonathan D. Spence
The Plum in the Golden Vase: or, Chin P'ing Mei Vol. I, The Gathering
by an unknown author, translated by David Tod Roy

Princeton University Press, civ + 610 pp., $39.95

Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works
by John Knoblock

Stanford University Press, Volume III, 480 pp., $125.00 the set

Let's start with a domestic tiff, Ming dynasty style:



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