John Lyman Bishop has included English versions of four previously untranslated representative San-yen stories: a detective story, an erotic story, an exemplary tale, and a pseudo-historical heroic story. The Latin, German, French, and English translations of San-yen stories are listed in the appendix. Although this book will be of primary interest to specialists, the stories make highly entertaining reading.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA CENTER

Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies 14
The Colloquial Short in China
A Study of the San-Yen Collections
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ISBN 9780674142008
Publication Date: 01/01/1956