Real life in China at the height of empire : revealed by the ghosts of Ji Xiaolan / edited & translated by David E. Pollard.

Author: Ji, Yun, 1724-1805.

ImprintHong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2014]

Imprint2014

Descriptionxl, 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Note:Translation of: Yue wei cao tang bi ji.

Note:Spirits, spectres and demons -- Ghosts -- Hauntings -- Foxes -- Fortune-telling -- Beyond belief -- Reincarnation -- Curiosities -- The wild west -- Officialdom -- Legal dilemmas and disputes -- Yamen staff -- Servants -- Hearth and home -- Piety and paragons -- Love pledged and blighted -- Friends and false friends -- Personal -- Dogma and dogmatists -- Morality -- Pedants -- Women -- Homosexuality -- Impersonation -- Fraud -- Merchants -- Bandits, brigands and robbers -- Physical prowess -- Jesuits in China.

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