Top Ten Satirical Novels

Author: Lü Zhimin
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Publish Date: 1996-02-01
Features: "The Treasury of Exquisite Short Stories from the History of Chinese Fiction," its purpose is to provide general readers with a representative selection of outstanding works from the history of ancient Chinese short stories. To assist readers in comprehension, we have invited experts and scholars to provide annotations, appreciations, and critical analyses for each work, with translations for classical Chinese texts. Ancient Chinese fiction has numerous classification methods. By linguistic form, it can be divided into classical Chinese fiction and vernacular fiction; by genre, it includes anecdotal fiction, romantic fiction, colloquial fiction, and serial fiction; by thematic content, there are even more classifications. This book is a satirical fiction collection, including works such as "Teng Dayin's Ghostly Judgment of Family Affairs," "The Clever Courtesan Assisting Her Husband to Success," "The Greedy Man Selling His Virtue for Six Courtesans," "Zhao County Lady's Mocking Gift of Yellow Oranges to Wu Educational Officer," "The Mad Lover Trapped by Fame and the Wicked Monk Who Seeks Profit," "The Hundred Harmony Workshop Creating Something from Nothing," "The Miser Who Becomes a Tycoon by Digging a New Pit," "Shouyang Mountain: Shu Qi's Betrayal," "The Demon Sea Market," and "The Scholar Who Interprets Literary Talents."