Yang Zengliang Shen Fu 
Six Chapters of A Floating Life with Annotations and Translations 
Reading Edition for Collection

Six Chapters of A Floating Life is an autobiographical collection of prose works written by a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, Shen Fu. In the book, Shen Fu shows the readers the daily trifles between him and his wife Chen Yun, his love experience and travel anecdotes in a beautiful and touching style. The content is delicate, real and full of emotions. The characters described are vivid. The author boldly and directly presents the real and interesting life at home to readers, so that we can have a glimpse of the life style, marriage and family status of the scholars at that time, and understand the elegance and taste of the literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.