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S16/0100 --- S16/0150 --- S16/0440 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies

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Chinese literature --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism. --- Southern and Northern dynasties, 317-589 --- Ren, Fang, --- S16/0440 --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- 任昉, --- China

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S13A/0402 --- S16/0440 --- China: Religion--Mythology (incl. pantheon, ghosts, myths and legends) --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies

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Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- S16/0440 --- S16/0460 --- S16/0475 --- S16/0250 --- #SML: Chinese memorial library --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern tales, short stories, prose: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends) --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular poetry, folksongs, storytelling --- China --- Yangzhou --- Folk literature [Chinese ] --- Chinese language --- Dialects --- Oral tradition - China - Yang-chou shih --- Storytelling - China - Yang-chou shih

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This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.

S16/0440 --- S16/0418 --- Chinese essays --- -Chinese literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Ming: studies, texts and translations --- Translations into English --- Translations into English. --- -China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- Chinese literature --- Chinese literature. --- Anthologies: general