| Description |
xxvi, 603 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-589) and index. |
| Contents |
Hsun Chu-po visits his friend -- Wu Pao-an ransoms his friend -- Old servant Hsu -- The biography of Yu Jang -- Prince Tan of Yen -- Feng Yen -- Wu-shuang the peerless -- Sung founder escorts Chiang-niang one thousand li -- Lady knight-errant -- Yang Wen, the road-blocking tiger -- The Sham commander reclaims his beauty -- The strong kid of the Ch'in-huai Region -- TheChung-shan wolf -- The case of the dead infant -- The Shansi merchant -- The story of Ying-ying -- Tu Shih-niang sinks the jewel box in anger -- The courtesan Li Wa -- The tragedy of Pu Fei-Yen -- Oil peddler courts the courtesan -- Couple bound in life and death -- The leper girl -- Broken hairpin -- Han P'ing and his wife -- Artisan Ts'ui and his ghost wife -- The pearl shirt reencountered -- Loach Fan's double mirror -- The poetess Yu Hsuan-Chi -- Empress Chao Fei-yen -- Han Wu-niang sells her charms at the New Bridge Market -- Henpecked judge who loses a governorship -- Miss Jen -- Legendary marriage at Tung-t'ing -- Eternal prisoner under the Thunder Peak Pagoda -- Red jade -- Scholar T'an -- A mangy Taoist exorcises ghosts -- Golden Phoenix hairpin -- Nieh Hsiao-chien -- Scholar Ts'ui -- Tu Tzu-ch'un -- A taste of immortality -- In search of a heart -- The Taoist priest of the Lao Mountains -- The monk's magic -- The world inside a pillow -- Scholar Chang -- The great Maudgalyayana rescues his mother from hell -- The jade-faced cat -- Nieh Yi-tao the magistrate -- The jest that leads to disaster -- Lion Cub Lane -- Magistrate T'eng and the case of inheritance -- The book that reveals the culprit -- Yen-chin -- The wit of the master thief -- Sung the Fourth raises hell with tightwad Chang -- Liu Ling -- Hou Po -- The fake knight-errant -- The swindler alchemists. |
| Subject |
Chinese fiction -- Translations into English.
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China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Ma, Y. W. (Yau-Woon), 1940-
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Lau, Joseph S. M., 1934-
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| ISBN |
023104058X. 0231040598 paperback |
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