A Tower for the Summer Heat

A Tower for the Summer Heat PDF Author: Yu Li
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231113854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Book Description
Li Yu, considered a master of comedy in Chinese literature, was a novelist, playwright, and essayist in the 17th century. In this collection, Patrick Hanan translates six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from pre-modern China. "One of the funniest books ever written".--THE NEW YORKER.