This anthology offers seventy translated and annotated brief essays, or hsiao-p’in, by means of fourteen recognized 16th- and seventeenth-century chinese language writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterised by way of spontaneity and brevity, have been a comparatively casual edition at the proven classical prose type during which all students have been knowledgeable. Written essentially to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in replicate the increase of individualism within the past due Ming interval and jointly offer a landscape of the colourful lifetime of the age. Critics condemned the style as escapist due to its specialise in life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the subsequent centuries a lot of those playful and infrequently irreverent works have been formally censored. at the present time, the essays offer important and infrequent debts of the main points over daily life in Ming China in addition to monitors of wit and pleasant turns of word.
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