名家讲中国古典小说（英文版）

作者简介

《文史知识》1981年创刊，坚持“大专家写小文章”的办刊宗旨，作者队伍荟萃了全国一流文史学者，从不同角度、以多样手法，深入浅出地介绍、评述优秀传统文化。除期刊外，多年来，编辑部也出版了一系列文史知识丛书，力图多方位向广大读者介绍中国的传统文化瑰宝。

内容简介

The Death of Beauties in The Plum in the Golden Vase and A Dream of Red Mansions Pan Jianguo The death of Li Ping’er and the death of Qin Keqing accounted respectively in The Plum in the Golden Vase and A Dream of Red Mansions , two classic Chinese novels dating from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, present a curious and remarkable resemblance to each other. Sparing no expense in words to describe the “death of the beauty”, both novels spend five entire chapters on the stories centering around the death – Chapters 61-65 in The Plum in the Golden Vase and Chapters 10-15 in A Dream of Red Mansions . They also share thematic and structural similarities in their storylines featured by the death: before the death, the family seeks the help of doctors and medicine for the beauty and the beauty arranges her afterdeath affairs when friends and relatives pay her a visit; after the death, the family orders an extremely expensive coffin and holds a luxurious funeral for the beauty, with friends and relatives attending to extend their condolences and monks and Taoists performing last rites......