警世通言 by Menglong Feng

"警世通言" by Menglong Feng is a collection of vernacular stories published in 1624. This second installment of the celebrated Ming dynasty "Sanyan" trilogy contains forty short novels spanning tales from Chinese history and Confucian classics. Once banned and nearly lost to history, the collection survived through a single copy discovered in 1930s Japan. These cautionary tales proved so compelling they inspired Chinese operas and were adapted into Japanese stories, cementing their place as masterworks of ancient Chinese vernacular literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646
Title 警世通言
Alternate Title Jing Shi Tong Yan
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_to_Caution_the_World
Credits Produced by Ya Zhu Yang
Language Chinese
LoC Class PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Subject Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Subject Short stories, Chinese
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EBook-No. 24141
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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