Censure and Celebration: Jiang Xingge Re-Encounters His Pearl Shirt

Published: April 9, 2016, 6:19 p.m.

One of the most acclaimed \u8bdd\u672c (hua ben - vernacular short stories) in Feng Menglong's 1620 collection\xa0Stories Old and New\xa0(tr. Yang Shuhui and Yang Yunqin). We discuss the question of irony in a story about both marital and extramarital bliss, and explore the reasons behind the story's famously racy details.