Lazy Dragon: Chinese Stories from the Ming Dynasty

by Geremie R. Barmé (Editor), Yang Xianyi (Translator), Gladys Yang (Translator)

This selection of stories is based on The courtesan's jewel box: Chinese stories of the xth-xviith centuries.

Contents:
Fifteen strings of cash --
The strange adventures of Yang Balao --
The ghost came thrice --
The Oil vendor and the courtesan --
A just man avenged --
The beggar chief's daughter --
The old gardener --
The courtesan's jewel box --
The tangerines and the tortoise shell --
Lazy dragon.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Geremie R. Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. He is Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where he also edits the online e-journal China Heritage Quarterly.