Erdu mei

Erdu mei (Chinese: 二度梅)^[1] or Erdu mei quanzhuan (traditional Chinese: 二度梅全傳; simplified Chinese: 二度梅全传),^[2] translated into English as The Plum Tree Flowers Twice^[1]^[2] or The Plum Blooms Again, is an 18th-century Chinese romantic novel from the early Qianlong era (1736-1795).^[3] Its authorship is ascribed to a writer named Xi Yin Tang Zhu Ren (惜陰堂主人), which is a pseudonym. Often categorized as a "caizi jiaren" romance novel, it consists of 40 chapters.

An illustration of characters from the novel
An illustration of characters from the novel

Citations

^ ^a ^b Salmon, Claudine, ed. (2013). Literary Migrations: Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17th-20th Centuries). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 144. ISBN 9789814414326.
^ ^a ^b Brokaw, Cynthia J. (2020). Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Brill. p. 489.
^ Diefenbach, Thilo (2004). Kontexte der Gewalt in moderner chinesischer Literatur. Harrassowitz. p. 76. ISBN 9783447050081.

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[salmon-1] Salmon, Claudine, ed. (2013). Literary Migrations: Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17th-20th Centuries). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 144. ISBN 9789814414326.

[brokaw-2] Brokaw, Cynthia J. (2020). Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Brill. p. 489.

[3] Diefenbach, Thilo (2004). Kontexte der Gewalt in moderner chinesischer Literatur. Harrassowitz. p. 76. ISBN 9783447050081.

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