Table of Contents:
“…Fong -- "Letter to my sons" / by Gu Ruopu (1592-ca.1681) ; translated by Dorothy Ko -- Personal letters in seventeenth-century epistolary guides / translated by Kathryn Lowry -- Letters by women of the Ming-Qing period / translated by Yu-Yin Cheng -- Selected short works / by Wang Duanshu (1621-after 1701) ; translated by Ellen Widmer -- Two ghost stories from Liaozhai's records of the strange / by Pu Songling (1640-1715) ; translated by Judith T. Zeitlin -- Two biographies / by Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) ; translated by Susan Mann -- Poems on tea-picking / translated by Weijing Lu -- Drinking wine and reading "Encountering sorrow": a reflection in disguise / by Wu Zao (1799-1862) ; translated Sophie Volpp -- A brief record of the eastern ocean / by Ding Shaoyi (fl. 1847) ; translated by Emma Jinhua Teng -- The "eating crabs" youth book / translated by Mark C. …”