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“It is made up of one character each from the names of three of the major female protagonists of the novel (P'an Chin-lien, Li P'ing-erh, and P'ang Ch'un-mei) that would literally mean Gold Vase Plum; it can be semantically construed as The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Plum Blossoms in a Golden Vase; and it puns with three near homophones that might be rendered as The Glamour of Entering the Vagina.”
― The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering
― The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering



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