Six Records of a Floating Life is an autobiography by Shen Fu who lived in Changzhou during the Qing dynasty. The four known "records" are "Wedded Bliss", "The Little Pleasures of Life", "Sorrow" and "The Joys of Travel". Two further chapters are missing: "A History of Life at Chungsha" and "The Way of Living".沈复，字三白，清苏州(今江苏省吴县)人。生於乾隆二十八年 (西元1763年)卒年不详。但据其所著《浮生六记》中，所记事终於嘉庆十二年(西元1807年)秋，由是推之，他的去世必在这年以后。沈复的性格爽直，落拓不羁，不事科举，不慕宦仕宦，以行商、画客、幕僚、名士终身。他的太太陈芸，字淑珍，跟他同岁，颖慧能诗文，才思隽秀。他们伉俪情笃，...

Nachdem er zweimal durch die Beamtenprüfung fällt, unterlässt Shen Fu weitere Karrierebestrebungen und begnügt sich mit einem bescheidenen Leben. Er verliebt sich in seine Cousine Chen Yun, die er bald darauf heiratet. Zwar verschläft er die Hochzeitsnacht, aber die beiden Eheleute verleben trotz materieller Einschränkungen glückliche Jahre und bekommen zwei Kinder. Als sie aus Statusgründen ihrem Mann eine Konkubine zuführt, verliebt sich Chen Yun jedoch selbst in die 16-jährige Hanyuan u...

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and refl...

'Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?'The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books f...

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. Shen held various posts as a secretary, but he also worked by turns as a teacher and merchant. Although he had a studio in Soochow for a time he found that he could not make a living out of his paintings and for much of his life was miserably poor. He was sustained by his beloved...

One of the most important topics in soil science is understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and soil ecosystem function. This relies on techniques able to accurately identify different soil organisms and how they interact in the soil microbiome.Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils provides a comprehensive overview of the range of techniques used to assess microbial/faunal diversity and activity in soils and its impact on key ecological pr...

No Fio Inconstante dos Dias, de Shen Fu, é um clássico chinês de uma beleza devastadora. É, por isso, um clássico universal, que pela primeira vez se publica em Portugal. Livro único de Shen Fu, relata-nos, antes de mais, uma história de amor, o amor do autor por Yun, a sua mulher: um amor correspondido, tão correspondido que os espíritos de Shen Fu e Yun se fundem também na paixão por tudo o que é imaginação e beleza. Essa história de amor cruza-se com histórias de amor filial, com histór...

As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book...When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the author’s permanent residence...As Shanghai succumbs to a seemingly apocalyptic deluge, a man takes refuge in his bathtub, only to find himself, moments later, floating through the city's streets...The characters in this literary exploration...

Practice has proven that conducting safety evaluations of reservoir dams has become a necessary measure to ensure the safety of water conservancy projects. This book introduces the development and achievements in the safety management of reservoir dams in China. Each chapter systematically sorts out and integrates evaluation measures related to different stages of the entire life cycle of reservoir dams, including planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, repair and reinfo...

Ecrit vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle et le début du XIXe le journal de Shen Fu permet de pénétrer de manière directe et naturelle au cœur de la vie chinoise traditionnelle ; il nous entraîne dans la réalité complexe d’une société vivante dont Shen Fu et Yun, son exquise et spirituelle épouse, incarnent inconsciemment quelques unes des plus hautes vertus, sans pour autant en masquer les tares.Ils restituent avec des mots simples et à travers leur humble expérience individuelle, l’hérit...

Seis estampas de una vida a la deriva (1809) es una pequeña joya autobiográfica, que tiene tanto de narración como de deliciosa memoria conyugal o de documento social, y que fue escrita con total libertad por un hombre educado como erudito pero que tuvo que malganarse la vida como secretario y marchante de arte. En estas memorias íntimas, Shen Fu nos narra sin convencionalismos los gozos domésticos y románticos de su matrimonio con Yun, la chica artística y maravillosa de la que se enamoró...