Clement Egerton’s four-volume translation entitled The Golden Lotus (1939) was a difficult undertaking admirably carried out. We carried out our plan. If the embryo’s electroreceptors detect the presence of a predatory fish in the vicinity, however, the embryo stops moving (and in so doing ceases transmitting electric currents) until the fish has moved on. Could you cease your noise? So far Chin P’ing Mei The Chinese University Press: Copyrighted Materials as its subject matter is concerned, Chin P’ing Mei certainly is a milestone in the development of Chinese fiction: it has departed from history and legend to treat a world of its own creation, peopled by life-size men and women in their actual bourgeois surroundings divested of heroism and grandeur. Columbia's student board asked university to divest from American companies. In view of this distinguishing feature, the hypothesis has been seriously proposed by P’an K’ai-p’ei that the novel must have evolved from the repertoire of generations of storytellers whose specialty was to accompany the recital of the tale of Hsi-men Ch’ing with precisely such songs and song sequences. I want to share with you what a recital is.