Hackett Classics: Six Records of a Life Adrift (Hardcover)

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 society at the time. There is really no plot to follow and chronology is tricky, but it is still an i...

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. Their life is both simple and difficult, spending days discussing art and poetry while at the same time...

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 class in and around Suzhou, which is about 80 kilometres west of Shanghai and was for a long time a cent...

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 class in and around Suzhou, which is about 80 kilometres west of Shanghai and was for a long time a cent...