Victor H. Mair is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Zhenjun Zhang is of Professor Asian Studies and Modern Languages at St. Lawrence University, USA. He is the co-editor of Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader (Bloomsbury, 2022).

• Introduction Victor H. Mair and Zhenjun Zhang1.Qu You, “The Golden Phoenix Hairpin” (Translated by Paul W. Kroll)2.Qu You, “The Tale of Cuicui” (Translated by Zhenjun Zhang and Sidney Sondergard)3.Qu You, “The Account of the Legal Administrator of the Grand Void” (Translated by Kelsey Seymour) 4.Qu You, “The Tale of the Lady in Green” (Translated by Yunwen Gao)5.Li Changqi, “The Record of a Phoenix-Tail Fern” (Translated by Qian Liu and Joanne Tsao)6.Li Changqi, “The Record of the Lotus Screen” (Translated by Weiguo Cao)7.Li Changqi, “The Tale of the Swing-play Gathering” (Translated by Jing Wang)8.Shao Jingzhan, “The Tale of Young Master Yao” (Translated by Chen Wu)9.Song Maocheng , “The Faithless Lover” (Translated by Zhenjun Zhang)10. Song Maocheng, “The Pearl Shirt” (Translated by Jing Hu) Notes on the Editors and ContributorsSelected BibliographyIndex

This collection provides careful translations and in-depth readings of Ming-dynasty classical tales, a genre that has been neglected heretofore. Edited by two well-known scholars in the field of traditional fiction, it should convince readers that this neglect has been more the result of the linguistic difficulty of these tales than their intrinsic merits.