TY - BOOK AU - Zhang,Zhuo TI - 遊仙窟 AV - PL PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Chinese fiction -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Xian_Ku; Release date is 2008-01-15; Produced by Pei-Hsuan Yan; Original publication data not identified N2 - "遊仙窟" by Zhang Zhuo is a Chinese tale written between 681 and 684. The narrator, weary from travel through distant mountains, takes shelter in a mysterious grotto where he encounters two women—Cui Shi Niang and the widow Wu Sao. What follows is an evening of wine, poetry, flirtation, and playful banter. Written in a mixture of parallel prose styles with leisurely rhymes, this early Tang romance offers a glimpse into encounters between traveling scholars and courtesans, influencing generations of Chinese love stories. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24295 ER -