The Abbot and the Widow
Tales from the Ming Dynasty
Description:... "...a colorful tapestry of adventure and misadventure, erotic romance, crafty intrigue, supernatural fantasy, comedies of errors, and crimes and punishment in China of the seventeenth century and earlier- it will delight Sinologists and general readers alike and take the armchair traveler on an astounding trip to a land far away in both time and space. Chun-Jo Liu, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis "Meet the ambitious entrepreneur, the scholar-official, upright or unscrupulous, the faithful servant, the scam-artist, the hedonist lay or religious: they and the other characters all played their part in an evolving late-imperial culture so vividly depicted by these writers of the fateful seventeenth century. E-tu Zen Sun, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, Pennsylvania State University.
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