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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Four: The Climax 金瓶梅 W. Norton A physical manifestation of theThe fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin Ping Mei is an anonymous sixteenth century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi men Ching, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives