Waking World Classics

Author: (Ming) Feng Menglong
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book collects forty stories with diverse styles. These stories, some derived from historical records and biographies, others from the notes and novels of past dynasties, mostly originate directly from folk tales and the actual lives of society. Through these plots and character portrayals, they reflect the desires of the people from various perspectives and to varying degrees during that time. Because Awakening the World was published later, it contains more contributions from scholars, with more refined revisions and embellishments. As a result, many of its stories achieve artistic excellence in terms of complete structure, vivid character portrayals, detailed plot descriptions, and rich vocabulary, far surpassing the simpler and more primitive works that preceded it.