Chinese fiction
Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
About this book
The story
Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns on hot summer days under a shady arbor to create a series of stories that embody deep disillusion
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