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100 1 _aLing, Mengchu,
_d1580-1644
245 1 0 _a初刻拍案驚奇
246 1 _aChu Ke Pai An Jing Qi
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapping_the_Table_in_Amazement
500 _aRelease date is 2018-06-02
508 _aProduced by Xiaoman Chiu
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aChinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57248
999 _c98079
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