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
Summary
In Treasury of Laughs Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the Chinese original and provides the only complete annotated English translation of Feng Menglong's Xiaofu, a 17th-century anthology of traditional Chinese humour with rich historical, linguistic, psychological, and anthropological connotations
