Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei

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Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei

By: Yuan Mei, Kam Louie, Louise Edwards

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Hardcover Published: 16th January 1996
ISBN: 9781563246807
Number Of Pages: 259

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"The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei's puritanical mid-Qing society". -- Reference & Research Book News.

Preface	p. xxi
Deputy Prefect LI	p. 3
Scholar Cai	p. 7
Revenge of the Skull	p. 8
General Zhao Spears the Cheeky Monster	p. 9
The Magistrate of Pingyang	p. 11
Tricking the Thunder God	p. 13
Ghosts Are Afraid of Those Unafraid of Death	p. 15
Scholar Qiu	p. 16
Ghosts Have Only Three Tricks	p. 18
Master Chen Qingke Blows the Ghost Away	p. 20
The Tall Ghost is Captured	p. 22
The Lady Ghost of the Western Garden	p. 24
A Sentry is Struck by Lightning	p. 26
In Which Hunters Expurgate the Fox Fairies	p. 28
The Goats Who Fulfilled Their Fate	p. 31
Capturing a Ghost	p. 33
Mr. Xu	p. 35
The Hairy People of Qin	p. 37
The Human Ape	p. 38
The Human Prawn	p. 39
The Duck's Lover	p. 40
The Spirit of the Turtle Stone	p. 41
Ghosts Who Play with Firecrackers May Burn Themselves	p. 46
Kaxiong	p. 48
Freak Wind	p. 51
The Old Woman Who Was Transformed into a Wolf	p. 53
A Loyal Dog Makes Use of Another Dog's Body	p. 54
Leng Qiujiang	p. 56
The Nailed-Up Specter Makes Good Her Escape	p. 58
The Messenger of Death Who Loved His Wine	p. 60
A Fox Fairy Plays Guanyin for Three Years	p. 63
Butterfingered Scholar Wu	p. 66
The Patriarch of Fox Fairies	p. 69
Swindled by the Earth God's Wife	p. 72
The Good Little Ghost	p. 74
The Ghosts Who Pretended They Could Speak Mandarin	p. 76
The City God Gets Drunk	p. 78
Two Great Ways to Deal with Ghosts	p. 81
The Immortal Prostitute	p. 82
Zhang Youhua	p. 85
A Ghost Borrows an Official Title for a Daughter's Marriage	p. 87
The Bear	p. 89
Two Corpses Make Love in the Wilderness	p. 90
King Buffalo Head	p. 92
The Muddleheaded Ghost	p. 94
The Ghost That Stood in Awe of the Powerful	p. 95
The Lovesick Ghost	p. 96
Thunder Strikes the Earth God	p. 98
Zhang Guangxiong	p. 100
The Blue-Capped Demon	p. 104
Cousin Raccoon	p. 107
An Imprisoned Ghost	p. 108
A Fox Fairy and a Ghost Invade the Stomach	p. 111
The Immortal Fox Fairy Hangs Itself	p. 114
Ghosts Hate Poverty	p. 115
Xiao Fu	p. 116
A Jeweled Pagoda Formed by Ghosts	p. 118
The Land Without Doors	p. 120
Scholar Song	p. 122
Scholar Zhuang	p. 125
Little Mischief	p. 128
Commander Wang	p. 130
The Sea Monster of Jiangxi	p. 133
The Sparrows Repay a Debt of Kindness	p. 134
Quan Gu	p. 136
A Ghost is Chased off by a Ghost	p. 139
The Folding Immortal	p. 141
Demons Are Terrified of Rationalism	p. 144
Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon	p. 146
The Thunder God Strikes Wang San	p. 148
Memories of Suiyan	p. 151
The Cool Old Man	p. 155
A Tiger Steals the God of Literature's Head	p. 158
Revenge on the Warrior of the Flowers	p. 161
The Wooden Guardsmen	p. 163
A Woman Transforms into a Man	p. 164
The Prince of Guazhou	p. 165
Yang Er	p. 167
Helping a Ghost Get Revenge	p. 169
A Donkey Helps Solve a Strange Case	p. 173
Scholar Zhang	p. 176
The Reincarnation of Cai Jing	p. 178
Hanging onto the Ears of a Tiger	p. 180
Animals and Humans Are Equally Unpredictable	p. 182
A Ghost Buys Herself a Son	p. 184
Poor Ghosts Haunt, Rich Ghosts Don't Bother	p. 188
Revenge of the Wronged Wife	p. 189
A Ghost Makes an Offering of Dumplings	p. 190
You Don't Have to Be Virtuous to Become a God	p. 193
In Which the Ghost Sues Her Loved One	p. 196
Elder Brother Ding	p. 202
Miss Wang Er	p. 204
Double Blossom Temple	p. 206
The Female Impersonator	p. 209
Tools of the Sex Trade	p. 212
Stealing Ginseng	p. 215
Stealing a Painting	p. 217
Stealing a Pair of Boots	p. 218
Stealing a Wall	p. 220
Daylight Ghosts	p. 222
About the Translators	p. 223
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ISBN: 9781563246807
ISBN-10: 1563246805
Series: New Studies in Asian Culture
Audience: General
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 259
Published: 16th January 1996
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.88 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.56