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Ting Yue Lou

Chinese caizi jiaren romance novel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ting Yue Lou
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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.

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A cover of the novel Ting Yue Lou with the slogan "The Number One Romance Book" (第一情書) attached to the title, from the Harvard University
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Pages from chapter seven of the novel

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
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