Feng Menglong

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Feng.

Feng Menglong (simplified Chinese: 冯梦龙; traditional Chinese: 馮夢龍; pinyin: Féng Mènglóng, 1574-1645) was a Chinese vernacular writer and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou, now Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China.

Feng was a proponent of the school of Li Zhi, which supported the importance of human feelings and behavior in literature. Most of his literary work was in editing and compiling histories, almanacs and novels. Two of his noteworthy novels are Pingyao Zhuan and Qing Shi. Another work, Dongzhou Lieguo Zhi ("Romance of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms") has been turned into a TV show.^{[citation needed]} In 1620 he published the Gujin Xiaoshuo ("Stories Old and New").

Works

• Jingshi Tongyan
• Pingyao Zhuan
• Qing Shi
• Gujin Xiaoshuo ("Stories Old and New") published (1620), also known as Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言) ("Illustrious Words to Instruct the World") selections translated by Cyril Birch, Stories from a Ming Collection: Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century (Bloomington,: Indiana University Press, 1959; rpr New York: Grove); translated in its entirety: Yang Shuihu, Yang Yunqin, Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)

External links

• PING YAO ZHUAN: The Sorcerers' Revolt, online English translation
• Stories Old and New A Ming Dynasty Collection
• Works by Feng Menglong at Project Gutenberg (Chinese)