An analysis of the seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular novel Sui Yangdi Yanshi (The Sensational History of Sui Emperor Yang)

<i>Sui Yangdi Yanshi</i> (The Sensational History of Sui Emperor Yang) is a historical novel published in China in 1631. It portrays, in sometimes graphic detail, the rise and decline of Emperor Yang (reigned 605 - 613) whose obsession with massive construction projects and pursuit of se...

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Main Author: Ellis, David
Published: University of Edinburgh 2000
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.649997