CONTENTS TALES OF ENCHANTMENT AND MAGIC The Cricket The Waiting Maid’s Parrot Sea Prince A Girl in Green Butterfly Dreams Suited to Be a Fish Li Ching and the Rain God Jade Leaves The Wizard’s Lesson The Priest of Hardwork Mountains White Lotus Magic The Peach Thief TALES OF FOLLY AND GREED The Magic Pear Tree The Wine Well Gold, Gold Stump Watching Buying Shoes The Missing Axe The Horsetrader The Silver Swindle The Family’s Fortune The Leaf The Tiger Behind the Fox Rich Man of Sung The Flying Bull Social Connections A Small Favor Pitted Loquats Memory Trouble Medical Techniques The Lost Horse The Deer in the Dream Loss of Memory The Sun THE ANIMAL KINGDOM A Faithful Mouse The Loyal Dog Black and White The Dog Goes to Court The Tale of the Trusty Tiger The Repentant Tiger of Chaoch’eng Tiger Boys Human Bait Educated Frogs and Martial Ants The Snakeman The North Country Wolf Counselor to the Wolves Monkey Keeper Man and Beast Man or Beast The Fish Rejoice Wagging My Tail in the Mud WOMEN AND WIVES Li Chi Slays the Serpent The Black General The Master and the Serving Maid A Cure for Jealousy The Fortune Teller A Dead Son The Golden Toothpick The King’s Favorite The Divided Daughter GOSTS AND SOULS The Scholar’s Concubine Three Former Lives The Monk from Everclear The Monk’s Sins The Truth About Ghosts Sung Ting-po Catches a Ghost The Man Who Couldn’t Catch a Ghost Ai Tzu and the Temple Ghost Escaping Ghosts Test of Conviction Drinking Companions The Censor and the Tiger Underworld Justice Sharp Sword The Skull JUDGES AND DIPLOMATS The Sheep Butcher and His King The Prime Minister’s Coachman The Royal Jewel Country of Thieves Strategy Buying Loyalty The Groom’s Crimes The Chain Hearsay Dreams The Mortal Lord One Word Solves a Mystery A Wise Judge A Clever Judge A Fine Phoenix Sun Tribute An Unofficial History of the Confucian Academy NATURE CIVILIZATION