九尾龟
九尾龟是中国传说中的妖怪。径尺余,有9条尾巴。明‧陆粲《庚编‧九尾龟》:“海宁百姓王屠与其子出行,遇渔父持巨龟,径可尺余,买归,击著柱下,将羹之,邻居有江右商人见之,告邸翁,欲以钱赎焉。商曰:‘此九尾龟,神物也。’皆验之,商因踏龟背,其尾两旁露出小尾各四。便持钱乞王,王不肯,遂烹作羹,父子共啖。是夕,大水自海中来,平地三尺,逮水退,翁往视王某,但见衣衾再床,父子皆不知去向。人咸云:为水府摄去杀却也。”
晚清古典小说名
《九尾龟》又名《四大金刚外传》,《嫖界醒世小说》,中国清代时期著名的世情谴责小说,被批评家们认定为"嫖界的指南,花丛的历史"。作者为张春帆,名炎,别署漱六山房,江苏常州人,卒于1935年。
扩展阅读
英文:
- Duval, Jean. "The Nine-tailed Turtle: Pornography or 'Fiction of Exposure'?" in: Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena (editor). (The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Centuryr) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press (); January 1, 1980), p. 177. ISBN 0802054730, 9780802054739.
- McMahon, Keith. Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity. 夏威夷大学出版社, 2010. ISBN 0824833767, 9780824833763. -- Includes a section called "Polygnous Politics in Nine-times Cuckold" about this book
- Starr, Chloë F. Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing (Volume 14 of China Studies). BRILL , 2007. ISBN 9004156291, 9789004156296.
- Wang, Dewei. Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. 斯坦福大学出版社, 1997. ISBN 0804728453, 9780804728454.