"Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now provides us with a new translation for the 21st century, which is not only well researched but also highly readable". --Wilt Idema, Harvard University

Product Description: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE ARTIST. Shen Fu, writer and painter, who was a native of Soochow, was born in 1763 and died sometime alter 1809. His father was by profession a secretary to magistrates, and Shen Fu was apprenticed in the same profession...read more

Product Description: 1st ed. Folio. Wraps. 165 pp, many colo, black and white plates and illustrations. Very near Fine.

A nineteenth-century Chinese magistrate's secretary describes his happy marriage and his unsuccessful career (view table of contents)