Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs : A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour

Introduction: The Treasury Of Laughs -- Feng Menglong's Preface -- Age-old Envy -- Rotten Scholars -- The Untouchables -- Occultism And Medicine -- Various Vocations -- Extraordinary Faculties -- Petty Sport -- Mocking Vulgarity -- Air Of Sexually Sophisticated Women -- Body Parts -- Funny Mistakes -- Daily Necessities -- Intercalary Words. By Hsu Pi-ching. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.