Proud Maid Chunmei

Chapter 1 About the Author and the Book
Chen Dongyou, male, Master of Arts, Doctor of History, professor of Nanchang University.

In 1987, he began to study "Jin Ping Mei".Published academic monographs ""Jin Ping Mei"—A Section of Chinese Cultural Development", ""Jin Ping Mei" Cultural Research", ""Jin Ping Mei" Poetry Culture Appraisal" and a monograph on the relationship between Ming and Qing novels, operas and social and economic changes " The Liberation of Human Desires: Social and Economic Changes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and Public Aesthetics", and a series of adaptation novels "The Officials of Ximen", "Pan Jinlian and Li Ping'er" and "Proud Maid Chunmei"; published ""Jin Ping Mei" and Canal Economy and Culture", "On the Unique Artistic Thinking Direction of "Jin Ping Mei"", "Re-discussion on Canal Economic Culture and "Jin Ping Mei"", "The Antinomy of "Jin Ping Mei" and Its Artistic Thinking", ""Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua" on Confucianism and Religion The Choice of Physiognomy", "The Relationship between Physiognomy and the Aesthetic Art of Ancient Chinese Novels——From the Plot of Physiognomy in "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua"", "Why Ximen Qing Didn't Be a Landlord——Social and Economic Problems in "Jin Ping Mei"", "< More than 20 papers such as "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua" and "Philosophical Propositions in Moral Preaching", "The Non-fiction Implications of "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua" and "Talking about Ximen Officials".

Chen Dongyou's research on "Jin Ping Mei" has three main features: First, he studies "Jin Ping Mei" from the perspective of economic culture, that is, the history of social and economic development and social changes, and strives to explore the relationship between literature and social economy and its regularity , and thus explored the connotation and value of the novel. In 1989, he began to put forward the viewpoint that "The Golden Lotus is a product of the economic culture of the canal".The second is to pay attention to the study of the literary theory of "Jin Ping Mei", and introduce the new theory of "direction of artistic thinking" into the study of "Jin Xue".The third is to actively transform his research results into a popular form acceptable to the public, and guide ordinary readers to read the book "Jin Ping Mei". "My Son" and "The Proud Maid Chunmei" are not only easier to read and understand in terms of plot and text, but also have introductory papers attached, which play a very good guiding role for ordinary readers.

This book "The Proud Maid Chunmei" is the third novel in the series. It mainly tells the grievances and hatred between the master and slave in Ximenqing's family through the life trajectory of Pan Jinlian's close maid Chunmei, and vividly depicts their various relationships. Mentality, words and deeds, joys and sorrows, and narrated the finale of the book.

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