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The Bonds of Matrimony

Chinese novel

Also known as: “Xingshi yinyuanzhuan”

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attribution to Pu Songling

In Pu Songling
The Bonds of Matrimony), which realistically portrays an unhappy contemporary marriage, was attributed to him by some scholars.
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place in Chinese literature

In Chinese literature: Prose fiction
…some one million words, the Xingshi yinyuanzhuan (“A Marriage to Awaken the World”). This long story of a shrew and her henpecked husband was told without any suggestion of a solution to the problems of unhappy marriages. Unsure of the reaction of his colleagues to his use of the vernacular…
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