01696cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500230014324600250016626400510019130000470024233600260028933700260031533800360034150000980037750000310047550800290050652006830053553400450121865300470126385600430131099900170135326729UtSlPG20260610133618.0mcr n260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7azh2iso639-1 4aPL1 aLing, Mengchu,d1580-164410a二刻拍案驚奇1 aEr Ke Pai An Jing Qi 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2008  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapping_the_Table_in_Amazement  aRelease date is 2008-09-30  aProduced by Wan Jei Chen  a"二刻拍案驚奇" by Mengchu Ling is a collection of vernacular short stories composed in the mid-17th century during the late Ming dynasty. This second volume contains 39 tales drawn from various Chinese dynasties, depicting merchants, street vendors, thieves, and other common people rather than emperors and heroes. The stories explore themes of love, marriage, and commerce while reflecting the social changes of its era. Written in vernacular Chinese, these tales captivated ordinary readers by finding the extraordinary within everyday life, revealing both human virtue and vice through twisting plots and vivid characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-164440uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26729  c67638d67638