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Six Chapters of a Floating Life
This is a work of autobiographical literature. Two of the original six volumes have been lost, and only four volumes remain. (The last two records included in this book are forgeries. The two forgeries were written around 1932.) The book describes the ordinary home life of the author and his wife, their bumpy encounters, and their travels around the world. The diction is simple and the emotions are sincere. There have been comments by predecessors that made people feel enchanted when reading the
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Six Chapters of a Floating Life (Full Vernacular Translation)
A "diary of love and life" written for ordinary people two hundred years ago. Reading it is like reading "ancient people's circle of friends". The vernacular version completely removes the difficulty of classical Chinese, and reading it is like reading a long article posted by a friend. Imagine that what you are reading is not a noble classic, but a "private diary" written by Shen Fu, a man in Suzhou more than two hundred years ago. In this diary, there are no emperors, generals, gods or ghosts,
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