The perfect lady by mistake and other stories
By: by Feng Menglong (1574-1646) ; translated with an introd. by William Dolby.
Publisher: P. Elek
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- Translations into English; China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Of the six stories in this vol., The perfect lady by mistake, and three other stories, are translated from the collection entitled Xing shi heng yan; the Li Bai is from Jing shi tong yan, and Yang Jiao is from Yu shi ming yan. All three collections, commonly called "San yan," were edited and amplified by Feng Menglong.
Table of contents: title: The perfect lady by mistake.; title: Li Bai (Li Po), God in Exile, drunken drafts his "Letter to daunt the Barbarians."; title: A joke over fifteen strings of cash brings uncanny disaster.; title: Two magistrates vie to marry an orphaned girl.; title: Yang Jiao throws away his life in fulfilment of a friendship.; title: On big tree slope a faithful tiger acts best man.