Description
This graceful memoir offers an intimate portrait of love, marriage, friendship, travel, and everyday life in Qing-era China. With candor and wit, the narrator recounts a deeply companionate marriage, the pleasures of art and nature, and the social worlds that shaped his ambitions as a literary-minded official’s secretary. Alongside these moments of beauty runs the story of precarious finances, professional disappointment, and the tensions between personal ideals and social expectations. Elegant, observant, and quietly moving, the work is both a vivid historical document and a timeless meditation on happiness, loss, and the art of living.
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paperback
Penguin UK
Published Nov 17, 1983
201 pages
ISBN: 9780140444292
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Details
First Published
1877
Language
eng
Translation
Original: 浮生六记
From: zho
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Six Records of a Floating Life by 沈复.