The opening of the novel Wu Mei Yuan from a printed edition
Wu Mei Yuan[1] or Wumei yuan[2] (traditional Chinese: 五美緣; simplified Chinese: 五美缘), translated into English as the Destinies of Five Beauties,[3] is a Chinese romantic novel of the early 19th-century during the Qing dynasty. The novel is usually categorized as one of the caizi jiaren novels. Its authorship is ascribed to a writer named Jisheng Shi (寄生氏), which is a pseudonym, however, this is also disputed.[4] It consists of 80 chapters. An early printed edition of the novel dating to 1822 is located in the National Library of China.
^Wang, Qingping (1998). The Commercial Production of the Early Qing Scholar-beauty Romances. Stanford University. p. 35. Wu Mei Yuan 五美緣. 80 chapters. Preface by Jisheng Shi 寄生氏. Renwu 壬午, (1822).
^Salmon, Claudine, ed. (2013). Literary Migrations: Traditional Chinese Fiction in Asia (17th-20th Centuries). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 144. ISBN 9789814414326.
^Brokaw, Cynthia J. (2020). Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Brill. p. 497.
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