Amazing Tales——Second Series

    二刻拍案惊奇

    English

    Ling Mengchu; Translator: Ma Wenqian

    凌蒙初著；马文谦英译

    Contents:

    As Amazing Tales - First Series by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) made a hit, the publisher urged him to write a sequel to it. This gave rise to Amazing Tales - Second Series, which has become another bestseller for the last few centuries. Our English version of the Second Series 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 these shed precious light on the social mosaic of seventeenth-century China.

    ISBN 7119033522 140×203 mm

    429pp paperback

    All rights available except English