Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection by Aina the Layman

Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection

Aina the Layman

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced
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Written around 1660, the unique Chinese short story collection Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor (Doupeng xianhua), by the author known only as Aina the Layman, uses the seemingly innocuous setting of neighbors swapping yarns on hot summer days under...

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