Outlaws of the marsh = 水浒传 / written by Shi Nai-an and Lou Guanzhong ; translated by Sidney Shapiro
Digitised Book 216.73.216.62 (0)
1986
Information About
One of the best known and best loved of the ancient Chinese novels set mainly in the final years of Hui Zong, a Song Dynasty emperor who reigned from 1101 to 1125. It tells why and how one hundred some-odd men and women banded together on a marsh-girt mountain, became leaders of an outlaw army of thousands and fought brave and resourceful battles against pompous, heartless tyrants.
Additional Details
- Title
- Outlaws of the marsh = 水浒传 / written by Shi Nai-an and Lou Guanzhong ; translated by Sidney Shapiro
- Creators
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- Shi, Nai'an, ca. 1290-ca. 1365
- Subject
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- Outlaws--China--Fiction
- Song, Jiang, fl. 1119-1121--Fiction
- China--History--Jin dynasty, 1115-1234--Fiction
- Chinese fiction--Translation into English
- Publisher
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- Asiapac Books & Educational Aids, 1986
- National Library Board Singapore, 1986
- Contributors
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- Luo, Guanzhong, ca. 1330-ca. 1400
- Shapiro, Sidney, 1915-
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill.
- Table of Contents
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- ch. 1. Major Lu pummels the Lord of the West -- ch. 2. Sagacious Lu puts Mount Wutai in an uproar -- ch. 3. Lin Chong enters White Tiger inner sanctum by mistake -- ch. 4. Sagacious Lu makes a shambles of Wild Boar Forest -- ch. 5. Lin Chong shelters from the snowstorm in the Mountain Spirit Temple -- ch. 6. Wu Yong by a ruse captures the birthday gifts -- ch. 7. Song Jiang secretly helps Ward Chief Chao flee -- ch. 8. The men of Liangshan Marsh make Chao Gai their chief -- ch. 9. Song Jiang slays Poxi in fit of anger -- ch. 10. Wu Song kills a tiger on Jingyang Ridge...
- Edition
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- Abridged [ed].
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.