This popular book by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) features 19 stories carefully chosen from the original 40. In fascinating plots and a highly expressive colloquial language, they are mostly about women's fate, their miserable existence in a polygamous society, their daring struggle for genuine love, and their implications in legal cases. All of these tales shed precious light on the social mosaic of seventeenth-centry China.
By Ling Mengchu, Paperback, English, 429 Pages, 5.5'' x 8''
