子不語

Yuan Mei took his title from the saying that the Master did not speak of prodigies, and then spoke of little else. Its many short tales of ghosts, strange deaths and the afterlife are told with wit. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text. This edition omits one or more passages describing sexual acts involving children; each omission is marked in the text. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.