Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and maids, thieves and imposters -- the stories in this collection provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty. Feng Menglong collected popular stories from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries) and circulated them via the flourishing seventeenth-century publishing industry. He not only saved them from oblivion but elevated the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great late-Ming and Qing novels to draw upon. As in their translation of the first collection of Feng's trilogy, Stories Old and New, Shuhui and Yunqin Yang include all forty stories as well as Feng's interlinear and marginal comments and all of the verse woven throughout the stories.

Stories to Caution the World (A Ming Dynasty Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Feng Menglong

Yang, Shuhui

Yang, Yunqin

United States

Univ of Washington Pr

Eight stunning stories selected from China's Imperial past in a handsome bilingual edition including "Fifteen Strings of Cash" and "The Courtesan's Jewel Box."

Selected Chinese Stories of The Song and Ming Dynasties (English-Chinese) (Chinese and English Edition) (English and Chinese Edition)

Ling, Mengchu

Foreign Languages Press

Brain Truster Collection (The Version for Collection)(Hardcover) is composed by the litterateur in the late Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong, collecting the enemy-outwitting stories in official and unofficial histories of over 3 thousand years from the pre-Qin period to the late Ming. It covers the great wisdom, such as the good administrations and stability of the country and military strategies as well as the wits of managing a family, financing management, turning ill luck into good and dealing with people flexibly. It is a great book rich in resourcefulness in the history of Chinese culture.

Brain Truster Collection (The Version for Collection)(Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

Jiangxi education press

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