Penquin Classics Six Records of a Floating Life, (Paperback)

from Scapegoats

Rambling novel/autobiography by a low-level Confucian bureaucrat around 1800. Neither he not a wife fit the Confucian stereotype, but their unusualness is useful in getting a glimpse into Chinese s...

from ocgreg34

"Six Records of a Floating Life" follows author Shen Fu and his wife Yün through early 19th Century China. A smart woman, Yün asks Shen Fu to teach her to read and write, which he happily does. The...

from ericmacknight

The author's name is actually Fu Shen, not Sanbai Shen. This is a wonderful book written around 1800. It's a memoir, essentially, and gives a fascinating picture of life among a certain social clas...

from ericmacknight

The author's name is actually Fu Shen, not Sanbai Shen. This is a wonderful book written around 1800. It's a memoir, essentially, and gives a fascinating picture of life among a certain social clas...