How to Be a Failure and Still Get Rich: Ling Mengzhu’s “The Tangerines and the Tortoise Shell
In the Ming Dynasty, If you weren’t born into a noble family, and weren’t on track to pass the civil service exams, you pretty much had to make something of yourself…by yourself. But if fate’s on your side, well, maybe that’s enough. In this classic vernacular short story (hua ben), a man who just never […]