Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei

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An East Gate Book Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Stories by Theme Illustrations Preface Introduction Deputy Prefect Li Scholar Cai Revenge of the Skull General Zhao Spears the Cheeky Monster The Magistrate of Pingyang Tricking the Thunder God Ghosts Are Afraid of Those Unafraid of Death Scholar Qiu Ghosts Have Only Three Tricks Master Chen Qingke Blows the Ghost Away The Tall Ghost Is Captured The Lady Ghost of the Western Garden A Sentry Is Struck by Lightning In Which Hunters Expurgate the Fox Fairies The Goats Who Fulfilled Their Fate Capturing a Ghost Mr. Xu The Hairy People of Qin The Human Ape The Human Prawn The Duck's Lover The Spirit of the Turtle Stone Ghosts Who Play with Firecrackers May Burn Themselves Kaxiong Freak Wind The Old Woman Who Was Transformed into a Wolf A Loyal Dog Makes Use of Another Dog's Body Leng Qiujiang The Nailed-up Specter Makes Good Her Escape The Messenger of Death Who Loved His Wine A Fox Fairy Plays Guanyin for Three Years Butterfingered Scholar Wu The Patriarch of Fox Fairies Swindled by the Earth God's Wife The Good Little Ghost The Ghosts Who Pretended They Could Speak Mandarin The City God Gets Drunk Two Great Ways to Deal with Ghosts The Immortal Prostitute Zhang Youhua A Ghost Borrows an Official Title for a Daughter's Marriage The Bear Two Corpses Make Love in the Wilderness King Buffalo Head The Muddleheaded Ghost The Ghost That Stood in Awe of the Powerful The Lovesick Ghost Thunder Strikes the Earth God Zhang Guangxiong The Blue-Capped Demon Cousin Raccoon An Imprisoned Ghost A Fox Fairy and a Ghost Invade the Stomach The Immortal Fox Fairy Hangs Itself Ghosts Hate Poverty Xiao Fu A Jeweled Pagoda Formed by Ghosts The Land Without Doors Scholar Song Scholar Zhuang Little Mischief Commander Wang The Sea Monster of Jiangxi The Sparrows Repay a Debt of Kindness Quan Gu A Ghost Is Chased Off by a Ghost The Folding Immortal Demons Are Terrified of Rationalism Spiritual Man Luo Catches the Wrong Demon The Thunder God Strikes Wang San Memories of Suiyuan The Cool Old Man A Tiger Steals the God of Literature's Head Revenge on the Warrior of the Flowers The Wooden Guardsmen A Woman Transforms into a Man The Prince of Guazhou Yang Er Helping a Ghost Get Revenge A Donkey Helps Solve a Strange Case Scholar Zhang The Reincarnation of Cai Jing Hanging onto the Ears of a Tiger Animals and Humans Are Equally Unpredictable A Ghost Buys Herself a Son Poor Ghosts Haunt, Rich Ghosts Don't Bother Revenge of the Wronged Wife A Ghost Makes an Offering of Dumplings You Don't Have to Be Virtuous to Become a God In Which the Ghost Sues Her Loved One Elder Brother Ding Miss Wang Er Double Blossom Temple The Female Impersonator Tools of the Sex Trade Stealing Ginseng Stealing a Painting Stealing a Pair of Boots Stealing a Wall Daylight Ghosts About the Translators