{"product_id":"9781462912407","title":"Gold Orchid: The Love Poems of Tzu Yeh","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Gold Orchid\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare collection of classical Chinese erotic and love poetry translated for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChinese erotic poetry was at one time thought to be nonexistent, simply because it was considered unfit to translate from the imperial anthologies, This translation of poems of Tzu Yeh, a 4th-century wine shop girl, exposes a world the emperors may not have cared to record for posterity. But it is precisely this world that has fascination for the Western reader, who will discover in it, perhaps a shock of recognition, the same currents of feeling that rippled beneath alluring surfaces wherever girls like Tzu Yeh have offered entertainment and flattery, beauty, wit, and sometimes love-to paying customers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Tzu Yeh through the pleasure-chasing seasons into her years of bitter memories, the reader places together, but he left her \"with a bitter heart still beating to each day’s sun.\" She weaves. She remembers. \"In thin silk dress, red sleeves a flutter\" she searches for \"a bold someone with a heart of mine\"--her gold-orchid friend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese beautiful and original poems are made available to Western readers in a translation that fuses the imagery of age-old China with a supple, lively modern idiom.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tuttle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129579978992,"sku":"9781462912407","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462912407_p0.jpg?v=1763680271","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462912407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}