Ting Yue Lou Explained

Ting Yue Lou ^[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]

Notes and References

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