The Chinese Decameron
By: now first rendered into English by Carlo de Fornaro.
Contributors: Fornaro, Carlo de, 1871- tr.
Publisher: [The Lotus society]
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Chinese literature -- Translations into English.; China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Most of the stories appearing in "The Chinese Decameron" were translated into French from the original Chinese by George Soulie de Morant and published under the title Les contes galants de la Chine.
No. 237 of an edition of 500 copies.
Table of contents: title: The monastery of the most excellent lotus (after the Sing-She-reng-yen. XVIth century0; title: Niang plucks frail blossoms (after the Sing-She-reng-yen. XVIth century); title: A marriage confusion (after the Sing-She-reng-yen. XVIth century); title: Which explains certain strange attractions (by Ki-Yu. XVIIIth century); title: Stronger than love (after the Tser-Wei-Yng-Yng of the Yuang-Chen. 780 A. D.); title: A bonze in the garb of a nun (after the To-Schang-tsi-Yuan. XVIth century); title: The Taoist monk (Poo Soong Lin. XVIIIth century); title: The marriage of Ya-Nei (after the Sing-She-reng-yen. XVIth century); title: Crafty husbands (after the Tsin-Ku-tsi-Kwan. XVIth century); title: A wife by chance (Ki-Yun. XVIIIth century)