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Readers who enjoy stories told aloud will love these tales of swindlers, clever judges, ghosts and brave women. Those curious about daily life in Ming China will find surprises and morals.
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What would you do if the silver you saved for a lifetime got up and walked out of your bedroom? In the first tale of this book, an old merchant named Jin Weihou ties eight ingots with red thread. On his seventieth birthday, he dreams of eight tall men in white who bow and say goodbye. In the morning the ingots are gone.
Slapping the Table in Amazement is a collection of forty tales by Ling Mengchu, who died in 1644 as the Ming dynasty ended. He retold old notebook stories, gossip and marketplace tales in a lively spoken voice, to astonish you and to say something about luck, greed, love and justice.
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- 1Fortune is settled by fate, not effortFree
- 2An unlucky merchant sells oranges for silver
- 3A matching face can fool a household
- 4Brave women prove strength needs no beard
- 5Marriages arrive by strange roads and exact dates
- 6A quiet plan can answer a cruel trick
- 7Immortals and magicians test an emperor
- 8Kindness comes back from unexpected hands
- 9Courts and ghosts bring hidden crimes to light
- 10A storyteller's voice guides every tale
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Fortune is settled by fate, not effort
Ling Mengchu opens with a claim. Fame, rank and wealth are set by fate, he says, and a clever man can starve while a dull one prospers. If everything is fixed, why work at all? His answer is that fortune often shows up in the blink of an eye, and nobody can predict it.
To prove it, he tells of Jin Weihou, who saves every hundred taels as one silver ingot tied with red thread. In his whole life he makes exactly eight. That night he dreams of eight tall men in white. They say their time in his household is up, and they name a man called Wang in another village. Jin wakes, and the ingots are gone.
Jin finds Old Wang, whose family discovered eight ingots under a bed. Jin asks only to see them once and weeps. Wang pities him and presses three taels into his sleeve, but the coins fall through a tear and land by Wang's own doorstep.
Silver that fate has not given you cannot be kept by saving, and silver that is yours cannot be pushed away.
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- LengthAbout 327,900 words
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What is Slapping the Table in Amazement about?
It is a collection of forty tales from Ming dynasty China about luck, greed, love and justice. Merchants, scholars, judges, ghosts, swordswomen and immortals appear, and each story ends with a surprise or a moral drawn by the storyteller.
What does the title Slapping the Table in Amazement mean?
The title names the reaction of a listener who hears something so astonishing that he slaps the table. The author promises tales strange enough to cause that reaction, from shells filled with pearls to ghosts who testify in court.
Is Slapping the Table in Amazement easy to follow?
Each tale stands alone and has a clear plot. The narrator speaks directly to you, poems frame each volume, and the stories move quickly from one scene to the next, so you can start with any volume you like.
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Ling, Mengchu. Slapping the Table in Amazement. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/slapping-the-table-in-amazement.
Ling, M. (2026). Slapping the table in amazement. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/slapping-the-table-in-amazement (Original work published 1628)
Ling, Mengchu. Slapping the Table in Amazement. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/slapping-the-table-in-amazement.
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