Chapter one of the novel Lin er bao

Lin er bao or Lin'er bao[1] (traditional Chinese: 麟兒報; simplified Chinese: 麟儿报), also translated into English as Son of Good Fortune,[2] is a Chinese romantic novel of the 17th-century written by an anonymous writer.[3] The novel is often categorized as one of the caizi jiaren novels that were massively popular during the late Ming and early Qing eras.[2]

The earliest extant edition of the novel is a 1672 printed edition from the early Qing period that is now located in the Dalian Library.

Citations

  1. ↑ Huang, Martin W. (2006). Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China. University of Hawaiʻi Press. p. 233. ISBN 9780824828967. Lin'er bao
  2. 1 2 McMahon, Keith (1995). Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction. Duke University Press. pp. 116, 308.
  3. ↑ "《麟儿报》". 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 (in Chinese).
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