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- KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS
- With a Preface by Hilaire Belloc
- LONDON GRANT RICHARDS LTD. ST MARTIN’S STREET MDCCCCXXII
- PREFACE
- KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS
- CHAPTER I The Encountering of Six within a Wood
- CHAPTER II The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien
- The Story of Wong Ts’in and the Willow Plate Embellishment
- CHAPTER III The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-shu
- The Story of Ning, the Captive God, and the Dreams that mark his Race
- i. THE MALICE OF THE DEMON, LEOU
- ii. THE PART PLAYED BY THE SLAVE-GIRL, HIA
- iii. THE IN-COMING OF THE YOUTH, TIAN
- iv. EVENTS ROUND WALLED TI-FOO
- CHAPTER IV The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-loe
- The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel
- CHAPTER V The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day
- The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect
- CHAPTER VI The High-minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-mei
- The Story of Weng Cho; or, the One Devoid of Name
- CHAPTER VII Not Concerned with any Particular Attribute of Those who are Involved
- The Story of Wang Ho and the Burial Robe
- CHAPTER VIII The Timely Disputation among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-ping
- The Story of Chang Tao, Melodious Vision and the Dragon
- CHAPTER IX The Propitious Dissension between Two whose General Attributes have already been sufficiently Described
- The Story of Yuen Yan, of the Barber Chou-hu, and His Wife Tsae-che
- CHAPTER X The Incredible Obtuseness of Those who had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung
- The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner
- CHAPTER XI Of Which it is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons become the Laughing-stock of Shrimps”
- CHAPTER XII The Out-passing into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned
- The Story of the Loyalty of Ten-teh, the Fisherman
- i. UNDER THE DRAGON’S WING
- ii. THE MESSAGE FROM THE OUTER LAND
- iii. THE LAST SERVICE
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