Six Records of a Floating Life Fu Shen
Six Records of a Floating Life Fu Shen Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar…
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Six Records of a Floating Life Fu Shen
Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child.
With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel layers of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses into Chinese society of the Ch'ing Dynasty.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.