Sold directly, from any country: secure checkout by Polar (card, Apple Pay, Google Pay; VAT handled at checkout). You get the PDF and EPUB downloads right after payment.
Every volume as PDF + EPUB, instead of €3.98 bought one by one.
West Lake Tales: The Second Collection, Volume 1
West Lake Tales: The Second Collection (西湖二集)
Zhou Qingyuan set every one of his thirty-four stories around Hangzhou's West Lake: emperors and courtesans, loyal generals and greedy monks, poets, ghosts, fox spirits and lovers who meet on the causeways in the rain. West Lake Tales is a bitter, brilliant late-Ming collection by a scholar who failed the examinations and poured his frustration into fiction, full of local legend, history and comedy. This first volume holds the first half of the stories. This complete new English translation is published in two volumes; this is Volume 1 of 2, and the whole set is also available as a bundle. Each story stands alone and can be read in a sitting, and together they give a lively picture of everyday Chinese life: markets, inns, temples, courts and bedrooms.
