"Original play by Kong Shangren, published in 1699. Rewritten as a novel by Gu Sifan in 1948."
Contents
Preface; Principal Characters; A Dynastic Table; Introduction; 1. In Cai Yisuo's Bookshop; 2. Pockmarked Liu's Storytelling; 3. The Perfumed Lady and Hou Fangyu; 4. A Disturbance at the Imperial Academy; 5. Huang Taichong's Debate with Qian Muzhai; 6. Hou Fangyu Took a Temporary Concubine; 7. The Scholar's Party at the Peach Leaves River Houses; 8. A Banquet in the Stone Nest Garden; 9. The Enthronement of a New Emperor; 10. A Number of Self-Seeking Gentlemen; 11. No True Friends among Rogues; 12. President Shi, Board of War; 13. Taking a Concubine by Force.