The Courteson's jewel box : Chinese stories of the Xth-XVIIth centuries / translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
Imprint
Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, 1981
Descript
vi, 520 p. : ill
CONTENT
The jade worker--the honest clerk--fifteen strings of cash--the monk's billet-doux--the foxes' revenge--the hidden will--the two brothers--the beggar chief's daughter--a just man avenged--the tattered felt hat--the courtesan's jewel box--the oil vendor and the courtesan--the old gardener--marriage by proxy--the proud scholar--the tangerines and the tortoise shell--the story of a braggart--the alchemist and his concubine--a prefectship bought and lost--the merry adventures of lazy dragon