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“feng menglong”

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  • The Sorcerer's Revolt

    by Feng Menglong, Nathan Sturman, Luo Guanzhong ...
    Luo Guanzhong's fictionalized account of the Beizhou rebellion, led by Wang Ze. This forbidden classic, unable in China for decades, was "completed" by Feng Menglong, who added other details such as how the evil sorcerers obtained their powers through the efforts of a Fox Spirit and her two children, along with various satires of Ming corruption. Translated by Nathan Sturman. Complete and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works of Brainpower; 智囊全集 Zhi Nang Quan Ji

    A Comprehensive Collection of Over 1,000 Chinese Wisdom Stories

    by Feng Menglong ...
    Series series 100 Books of Ancient China Classics
    Written by Feng Menglong 冯梦龙, the Complete Works of Brainpower (智囊全集, Zhi Nang Quan Ji) was first compiled in 1626 or the Sixth Year of Tianqi in Ming Dynasty. It contains more than 1200 stories of brainpower and intelligence from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. There are twenty-eight sub-categories of wisdom, sagacity, courage, tact, wisdom, language, military, boudoir and so on.This ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Sanyan Stories

    Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection

    by Feng Menglong ...
    Translated by Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang ...
    Presented here are nine tales from thecelebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574–1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he collected were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Feng Menglong's Judge Bao: the Footsteps of a Spirit

    ancient Chinese crime fiction retold by Michael Henrik Wynn

    by Feng Menglong, Michael Henrik Wynn ...
    Narrated by Michael Henrik Wynn ...

    Unabridged

    39 min

    The emergence of crime fiction was closely connected to the development of a modern legal system. In Germany there were the true crime stories August Gottlieb Meißner (1753-1804), in Britain The Newgate Calendar (1774) and in France the romanticized publications of Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857), the first chief of the Sûreté.China has one of the oldest bureaucracies on earth. A real life ... Read more

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  • Stories Old and New

    A Ming Dynasty Collection

    by Feng Menglong ...
    Translated by Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang ...
    Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early ... Read more

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  • Puer Tea

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    by Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
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  • Unearthing the Changes

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  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

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