Water Margin (Illustrated Collector's Edition)Volume I/水浒传（上） [Chinese]

By 施耐庵 罗贯中

The classic Rong Yu Tang Edition of "Water Margin", featuring authoritative annotations by experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Includes hundreds of explanatory notes, phonetic notations for difficult characters, ensuring an accessible reading experience. Beautifully presented with forty finely crafted illustrative inserts. 经典容与堂本《水浒传》，中国社科院专家权威校注，数百条注释、疑难字注音，无障碍阅读，四十张绣像版插图精美呈现！ Water Margin provides a vivid and detailed portrayal of the entire process of the peasant uprising led by Song Jiang-from its inception and growth to its ultimate failure. It exposes the darkness and decay of feudal society and the various evils of the ruling class, while passionately celebrating the rebellious spirit and righteous actions of the uprising's heroes. The novel gives life to a brilliant array of梁山 heroes, vividly revealing the objective truth of feudal society-that "officials drive the people to rebellion"-as well as the internal causes underlying the failure of peasant uprisings. In 1953, during the early years of the Writers Publishing House, among its very first publications were these four classical masterpieces: Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West. These editions are among the earliest published in New China and remain some of the most influential. For this four-volume series, we have selected the editions that best capture the essence of each work: Dream of the Red Chamber (Cheng Yi Ben), Water Margin (Rong Yu Tang Ben), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Mao's Commentary Edition), and Journey to the West (Shi De Tang Ben). Experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have been invited to meticulously proofread and annotate the texts, and nearly two hundred finely crafted illustrations have been carefully chosen, striving to provide readers with the definitive editions for their personal libraries. 《水浒传》具体而生动地描写了以宋江为首的农民起义发生、发展直至失财的整个过程，揭露了封建社会的黑暗、腐朽和统治阶级的种种罪恶，热情歌颂了起义英雄的反抗精神和正义行动，塑造了一大批梁山好汉的光辉形象，形象地揭示了封建社会"官逼民反"的客观真理和农民起义失败的内在原因。 作家出版社在1953年建社初期，最早出版的图书中就有《红楼梦》《水浒传》《三国演义》《西游记》四部古典名著。是新中国以来出版最早、也是最有影响的版本之一。该四部名著，我们从繁多的版本中，选择了最能体现著作精髓的版本，分别为：《红楼梦》（程乙本）、《水浒传》（容与堂本）、《三国演义》（毛评本）、《西游记》（世德堂本），邀请中国社科院专家精心勘校、注释，精选近二百张绣像插图，力求成为读者阅读的最佳版本。

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: B07BFQCHMN
• ISBN13: 9787506396301
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: China National Publications Import & Export C
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 2.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"