Yuan Mei, Kam Louie, Louise Edwards

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Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781563246807
• ISBN-10: 1563246805
• Artikelnr.: 21826154

Autorenporträt

Authored by Mei, Yuan; Louie, Kam; Edwards, Louise; Mei, Yuan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Deputy Prefect Li
Chapter 2 Scholar Cai
Chapter 3 Revenge of the Skull
Chapter 4 General Zhao Spears the Cheeky Monster
Chapter 5 The Magistrate of Pingyang
Chapter 6 Tricking the Thunder God
Chapter 7 Ghosts Are Afraid of Those Unafraid of Death
Chapter 8 Scholar Qiu
Chapter 9 Ghosts Have Only Three Tricks
Chapter 10 Master Chen Qingke Blows the Ghost Away
Chapter 11 The Tall Ghost Is Captured
Chapter 12 The Lady Ghost of the Western Garden
Chapter 13 A Sentry Is Struck by Lightning
Chapter 14 In Which Hunters Expurgate the Fox Fairies
Chapter 15 The Goats Who Fulfilled Their Fate
Chapter 16 Capturing a Ghost
Chapter 17 Mr. Xu
Chapter 18 The Hairy People of Qin
Chapter 19 The Human Ape
Chapter 20 The Human Prawn
Chapter 21 The Duck's Lover
Chapter 22 The Spirit of the Turtle Stone
Chapter 23 Ghosts Who Play with Firecrackers May Burn Themselves
Chapter 24 Kaxiong
Chapter 25 Freak Wind
Chapter 26 The Old Woman Who Was Transformed into a Wolf
Chapter 27 A Loyal Dog Makes Use of Another Dog's Body
Chapter 28 Leng Qiujiang
Chapter 29 The Nailed-up Specter Makes Good Her Escape
Chapter 30 The Messenger of Death Who Loved His Wine
Chapter 31 A Fox Fairy Plays Guanyin for Three Years
Chapter 32 Butterfingered Scholar Wu
Chapter 33 The Patriarch of Fox Fairies
Chapter 34 Swindled by the Earth God's Wife
Chapter 35 The Good Little Ghost
Chapter 36 The Ghosts Who Pretended They Could Speak Mandarin
Chapter 37 The City God Gets Drunk
Chapter 38 Two Great Ways to Deal with Ghosts
Chapter 39 The Immortal Prostitute
Chapter 40 Zhang Youhua
Chapter 41 A Ghost Borrows an Official Title for a Daughter's Marriage
Chapter 42 The Bear
Chapter 43 Two Corpses Make Love in the Wilderness
Chapter 44 King Buffalo Head
Chapter 45 The Muddleheaded Ghost
Chapter 46 The Ghost That Stood in Awe of the Powerful
Chapter 47 The Lovesick Ghost
Chapter 48 Thunder Strikes the Earth God
Chapter 49 Zhang Guangxiong
Chapter 50 The Blue-Capped Demon
Chapter 51 Cousin Raccoon
Chapter 52 An Imprisoned Ghost
Chapter 53 A Fox Fairy and a Ghost Invade the Stomach
Chapter 54 The Immortal Fox Fairy Hangs Itself
Chapter 55 Ghosts Hate Poverty
Chapter 56 Xiao Fu
Chapter 57 A Jeweled Pagoda Formed by Ghosts
Chapter 58 The Land Without Doors
Chapter 59 Scholar Song
Chapter 60 Scholar Zhuang
Chapter 61 Little Mischief
Chapter 62 Commander Wang
Chapter 63 The Sea Monster of Jiangxi
Chapter 64 The Sparrows Repay a Debt of Kindness
Chapter 65 Quan Gu
Chapter 66 A Ghost Is Chased Off by a Ghost
Chapter 67 The Folding Immortal
Chapter 68 Demons Are Terrified of Rationalism
Chapter 69 Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon
Chapter 70 The Thunder God Strikes Wang San
Chapter 71 Memories of Suiyan
Chapter 72 The Cool Old Man
Chapter 73 A Tiger Steals the God of Literature's Head
Chapter 74 Revenge on the Warrior of the Flowers
Chapter 75 The Wooden Guardsmen
Chapter 76 A Woman Transforms into a Man
Chapter 77 The Prince of Guazhou
Chapter 78 Yang Er
Chapter 79 Helping a Ghost Get Revenge
Chapter 80 A Donkey Helps Solve a Strange Case
Chapter 81 Scholar Zhang
Chapter 82 The Reincarnation of Cai Jing
Chapter 83 Hanging onto the Ears of a Tiger
Chapter 84 Animals and Humans Are Equally Unpredictable
Chapter 85 A Ghost Buys Herself a Son
Chapter 86 Poor Ghosts Haunt, Rich Ghosts Don't Bother
Chapter 87 Revenge of the Wronged Wife
Chapter 88 A Ghost Makes an Offering of Dumplings
Chapter 89 You Don't Have to Be Virtuous to Become a God
Chapter 90 In Which the Ghost Sues Her Loved One
Chapter 91 Elder Brother Ding
Chapter 92 Miss Wang Er
Chapter 93 Double Blossom Temple
Chapter 94 The Female Impersonator
Chapter 95 Tools of the Sex Trade
Chapter 96 Stealing Ginseng
Chapter 97 Stealing a Painting
Chapter 98 Stealing a Pair of Boots
Chapter 99 Stealing a Wall
Chapter 100 Daylight Ghosts