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The Broken Seals: Part One of the Marshes of Mount Liang
Contributor(s): Shi, Nai'an (Author), Luo, Guanzhong (Author), Dent-Young, John (Translator)
ISBN: 9622016022     ISBN-13: 9789622016026
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.77  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- Literary Collections | Asian - Chinese
Series: Marshes of Mount Liang
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.52" W x 8.41" (1.10 lbs) 448 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Cultural Region - Chinese
 
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Publisher Description:
When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the rivers and lakes-the mixed company of heroes and vagabonds who live by their wits and their fighting skills. The story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, following first one hero, then another, as their paths converge and part, until finally 108 brave-but not entirely admirable-men are united at the outlaws' stronghold in the Marshes of Mount Liang.

The story takes us through the vast landscape of imperial China. We hear of epic duels, gargantuan feasts, and cunning ambushes, and we witness injustice, betrayal, murder and revenge. We are told also of the beauty of the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival or of the snow, crisp underfoot on a stormy night in the country.

This volume consists of the first twenty-two chapters of the full 120-chapter version of the classic Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version and including much of the verse. It offers the English reader something of the liveliness and humour of a work which has delighted generations of Chinese readers.