Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei

by Yuan Mei, Kam Louie, Louise Edwards

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315285719
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	259
Lexile:	1070L (what's this?)
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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;