Ting Yue Lou

Ting Yue Lou (traditional Chinese: 聽月樓; simplified Chinese: 听月楼; lit. 'Listening to the Moon Tower')^[1] is a Chinese caizi jiaren romance novel by an anonymous writer from the Jiaqing era (1796-1820) of the Qing dynasty. The novel consists of 20 chapters.^[2] An early printed edition of the novel dating to 1815 is now preserved in the Zhejiang University.

Some of the later 19th-century editions of the novel feature illustrations by the famed Chinese illustrator Wu Youru (呉友如; 1840–1894).^[3]

Illustrations of the characters in the novel by Wu Youru

Citations

^ Wang, Qingping (1998). The Commercial Production of the Early Qing Scholar-beauty Romances. Stanford University. p. 35. 54. Ting Yue Lou 聽月樓. 20 chapters.
^ "《听月楼》". 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 (in Chinese).
^ Wagner, Rudolf G., ed. (2008). Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910. State University of New York Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780791471180.

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[1] Wang, Qingping (1998). The Commercial Production of the Early Qing Scholar-beauty Romances. Stanford University. p. 35. 54. Ting Yue Lou 聽月樓. 20 chapters.

[2] "《听月楼》". 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 (in Chinese).

[3] Wagner, Rudolf G., ed. (2008). Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910. State University of New York Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780791471180.

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