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• 鏡花緣

  By Li Ruzhen

  A disappointed scholar sails abroad with his merchant brother-in-law and visits fantastic countries, among them a land of gentlemen, a land of giants and a Kingdom of Women where men are bound and powdered. Begun as a voyage of wonders, it becomes the story of a hundred talented young women in the reign of Empress Wu.

  96 chapters · About 731 minutes of published text

• 閱微草堂筆記

  By 紀曉嵐

  Ji Yun's notes from a thatched cottage on ghost stories, fox tales and odd happenings, told with a dry sense of humour and a Confucian suspicion of superstition. Plain moral comment follows the stories he hears from friends and servants.

  24 chapters · About 671 minutes of published text

• 阿Ｑ正傳

  By Lu Xun

  Ah Q, a village odd-job man who turns every humiliation into a private victory, drifts toward the 1911 Revolution without understanding it. Lu Xun's novella is a comic and merciless portrait of a man and, through him, of a nation.

  9 chapters · About 56 minutes of published text

• 隋唐演義

  By Chu Renhu

  From the excesses of Emperor Yang of Sui to the founding of the Tang and the reigns of Empress Wu and Emperor Xuanzong, a century of palace intrigue and rebellion. Heroes of the greenwood such as Qin Shubao share the stage with emperors and consorts.

  100 chapters · About 1196 minutes of published text