page_title: Ling Mengchu
hierarchical_section_title: Ling Mengchu
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 凌濛初（1580年6月18日－1644年2月21日），字玄房，號初成，別號即空觀主人，浙江烏程（今吳興區織里鎮晟舍）人，明朝官員，文學家、小說家。 English: Ling Meng Chu, bureaucrat, writer, novelist of the last Ming Dynasty.
context_page_description: Ling Mengchu was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his vernacular short fiction collections Slapping the Table in Amazement, I and II.
context_section_description: Ling Mengchu (Chinese: 凌濛初; pinyin: Líng Méngchū; Wade–Giles: Ling Meng-ch'u; 1580–1644) was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his vernacular short fiction collections Slapping the Table in Amazement (拍案驚奇), I and II.
caption: Portrait of the Ling Mengchu
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