Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei (New Studies in Asian Culture)

"The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics banned by Mei’s puritanical mid-Qing society." -- Reference & Research Book News. (cont.) 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 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 (cont.) 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 Equallly 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 (cont.) 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. Edited And Translated With An Introduction By Kam Louie And Louise Edwards. East Gate Book--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References. The 18th-century Chinese poet, Yuan Mei, also wrote some short fiction - "Censored by Confucius" - which is reproduced here. The stories offer insights into the Mei's views on crime, sex, the status of women, homosexuality, miscarriage of justice, ghosts, revenge and conservative morality.