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Ping Yao Zhuan

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Annotated English translation of the Chinese novel Ping Yao Zhuan, a story of the supernatural, Daoism and Buddhism and the rebellion and usurpation of Wang Ze during the Northern Song Dynasty. The forty chapter version by Feng Menglong of the late Ming, devloped from the earlier twenty chapter work of Luo Guanzhong and many traditional stories. Hyperlinked chapters, notes, table of contents.