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1. 1. The Plum In The Golden Vase Or, Chin P'ing Mei

   

   A sprawling, candid novel that follows the rise and fall of a wealthy, licentious merchant and the intertwined lives of his wives, concubines, servants, and cronies; through meticulously rendered scenes of domestic life, erotic entanglement, business dealings, and legal and political corruption, it exposes greed, moral decay, and social hypocrisy in late imperial society, blending realism and satire as personal vice and systemic rot lead to violence, ruin, and a stark reckoning.

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