Stories to awaken the world / compiled [and authored] by Feng Menglong ; translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang.
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| Other title: | Xing shi heng yan. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Chinese |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Ming dynasty collection ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface [to the 1627 edition]
- Two high-minded county magistrates vie to take on an orphan girl as daughter-in-law
- Three devoted brothers win honor by yielding family property to one another
- The oil-peddler wins the queen of flowers
- The old gardener meets fair maidens
- The grateful tiger delivers the bride at big tree slope
- Divine foxes lose a book at small water bay
- Scholar Qian is blessed with a wife through a happy mistake
- Prefect Qiao rearranges matches in an arbitrary decision
- Chen Duoshou and his wife bound in life and in death
- The Liu brothers in brotherhood and in marriage
- Three times Su Xiaomei tests her groom
- Four times Abbot Foyin flirts with Qinniang
- The leather boot as evidence against the God Erlang's impostor
- The fan tower restaurant as witness to the love of Zhou Shengxian
- In eternal regret, He Daqing leaves behind a lovers' silk ribbon
- In defiance, Lu Wuhan refuses to give up the colored shoes
- Zhang Xiaoji takes in his brother-in-law at Chenliu
- Shi Fu encounters a friend at Tanque
- Bai Yuniang endures hardships and brings about her husband's success
- Zhang Tingxiu escapes from death and saves his father
- With her wisdom Zhang Shu'er helps Mr. Yang escape
- With his flying sword Lu Dongbin attempts to kill the yellow dragon
- Prince Hailing of Jin dies from indulgence in lust
- Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty is punished for his life of extravagance
- Mr. Dugu has the strangest dreams on his journey home
- Magistrate Xue proves his divinity through a fish
- Li Yuying appeals for justice from jail
- Young Master Wu goes to a tryst in the next boat
- With his passion for poetry and wine, Scholar Lu scorns dukes and earls
- In a humble inn, Li Mian meets a knight-errant
- Regional commander Zheng renders distinguished service with his divine-arm bow
- Scholar Huang is blessed with divine aid through his jade-horse pendant
- Over fifteen strings of cash, a jest leads to dire disasters
- For one penny, a small grudge ends in stark tragedies
- In righteous wrath, old servant Xu builds up a family fortune
- Enduring humiliation, Cai Ruihong seeks revenge
- Du Zichun goes to Chang'an three times
- Daoist Li enters cloud gate cave alone
- Magistsrate Wang burns down precious lotus monastery
- The god of Madang conjures wind to blow Wang Bo to Prince Teng's pavilion.