01692cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500230014324600260016626400510019230000470024333600260029033700260031633800360034250000980037850000310047650800290050752006780053653400450121465300470125985600430130699900170134957248UtSlPG20260610134323.0mcr n260607r2018||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7azh2iso639-1 4aPL1 aLing, Mengchu,d1580-164410a初刻拍案驚奇1 aChu Ke Pai An Jing Qi 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2018  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 2018-06-02  aProduced by Xiaoman Chiu  a"初刻拍案驚奇" by Mengchu Ling is a collection of vernacular short stories composed in 1627 during the late Ming dynasty. This two-volume work contains seventy-eight tales drawn from folk legends, romances, and unofficial history. The stories capture extraordinary events hidden within ordinary life, featuring merchants, hawkers, prostitutes, thieves, and other common people rather than emperors and heroes. Written in vernacular Chinese, the collection explores themes of love, marriage, and commerce while reflecting the social changes of seventeenth-century China through vivid characters and surprising plot twists. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-164440uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57248  c98079d98079