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Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

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Shandong, China

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Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (Chinese: 蘭陵笑笑生) or "The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling", a clear pseudonym.

Jin Ping Mei (Chinese: 金瓶梅; pinyin: Jīn Píng Méi), translated as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus, is a Chinese naturalistic novel composed in vernacular Chinese during the late Ming Dynasty. The anonymous author took the pseudonym Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (蘭陵笑笑生), "The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling," and his identity is otherwise unknown (the only clue is that he hailed from Lanling in present-day Shandong).

The identity of the author has not yet been established, but the coherence of the style and the subtle symmetry of the narrative point to a single author. The British orientalist Arthur Waley, writing before recent research, in his ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,433 ratings · 187 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	Jin Ping Mei/ The Golden Lotus 4.13 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1610 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering 4.03 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1596	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei: Volume Two: The Rivals by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, David Tod Roy (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1610 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Lotus Volume 1: Jin Ping Mei (1) (Tuttle Classics) by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Clement Egerton (Translator), Robert Hegel (Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 104 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, David Tod Roy (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1610 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, Clement Egerton (Translator), Robert Hegel (Introduction) 3.99 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1596 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Four: The Climax by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, David Tod Roy (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1610 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Five: The Dissolution by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (Translator), David Tod Roy (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1610 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	金瓶梅詞話 by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, 梅節 (Editor), 蘭陵笑笑生 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Lotus, Volume 4 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1596	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

The Golden Lotus (4 books)
by

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

4.09 avg rating — 1,261 ratings

The Plum in the Golden Vase (5 books)
by

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (Translator),

David Tod Roy (Translator)

4.09 avg rating — 725 ratings

Hsi Men (3 books)
by

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng,

David Tod Roy (Translator)

4.05 avg rating — 611 ratings

Jin Ping Mei (1 book)
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Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng,

Clement Egerton (Translator),

Robert Hegel (Introduction),

Shu Qingchun (Contributor)

3.99 avg rating — 84 ratings

Quotes by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (?)

“When pleasure reaches its height passions are
intense, and feelings know no bounds;
As the mouth of the "divine turtle"
disgorges ts "silvery stream.”
― Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

tags: the-divine-turtle

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“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei

tags: humor, romance, wisdom

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“When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart.”
― Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, Golden Lotus Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei

tags: romantic, wisdom

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