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The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China By Su Shi, Lu Cai, and Tu Benjun. Translated by Elizabeth Smithrosser. The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 207 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

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The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China By Su Shi, Lu Cai, and Tu Benjun. Translated by Elizabeth Smithrosser. The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 207 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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1 See Egan, Ronald C., Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 4–5 Google Scholar. In addition, Su Shi’s collected works contain two fictive letters, written in the voice of historical figures, addressing historical situations of their time. See Shi, Su, Su Shi wenji (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1996 [1986]), 64.1969–78.Google Scholar

2 See Nylan, Michael, The Chinese Pleasure Book (New York: Zone Books, 2018), 421–22Google Scholar.

3 See Zhe, Su, Luancheng ji (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2009), II.22.1421Google Scholar.