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Stories from a Ming Collection - Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century Grand Canyon Reader Award for Intermediate (2016) An introduction on the historyThe popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the Tang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglongs collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the storytellers traditional art. The Pearl Sewn Shirt is a cautionary romance describing the tragedy of a broken marriage; the heroic