九尾龜
九尾龜是中國傳說中的妖怪。徑尺余,有9條尾巴。明‧陸粲《庚編‧九尾龜》:「海寧百姓王屠與其子出行,遇漁父持巨龜,徑可尺余,買歸,擊著柱下,將羹之,鄰居有江右商人見之,告邸翁,欲以錢贖焉。商曰:『此九尾龜,神物也。』皆驗之,商因踏龜背,其尾兩旁露出小尾各四。便持錢乞王,王不肯,遂烹作羹,父子共啖。是夕,大水自海中來,平地三尺,逮水退,翁往視王某,但見衣衾再床,父子皆不知去向。人咸云:為水府攝去殺卻也。」
晚清古典小說名
《九尾龜》又名《四大金剛外傳》,《嫖界醒世小說》,中國清代時期著名的世情譴責小說,被批評家們認定為"嫖界的指南,花叢的歷史"。作者為張春帆,名炎,別署漱六山房,江蘇常州人,卒於1935年。
擴展閱讀
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. 夏威夷大學出版社, 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. 史丹佛大學出版社, 1997. ISBN 0804728453, 9780804728454.