Lazy dragon : Chinese stories from the Ming Dynasty

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Lazy dragon : Chinese stories from the Ming Dynasty

translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang ; edited by Geremie Barmé

Joint Pub. Co., 1981

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明代短篇小説選

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Note

Translation of short stories originally selected from san yen; erh pʿai, collections of tales respectively by Feng Meng-lung and Ling Meng-chʿu

"This selection of stories is based on The courtesan's jewel box: Chinese stories of the xth-xviith centuries"--P. xx

Bibliography: p. [303]-304

Contents of Works

  • Fifteen strings of cash
  • The strange adventures of Yang Balao
  • The ghost came thrice
  • The Oil vendor and the courtesan
  • A just man avenged
  • The beggar chief's daughter
  • The old gardener
  • The courtesan's jewel box
  • The tangerines and the tortoise shell
  • Lazy dragon

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