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Shishuo Xinyu
The Shishuo Xinyu (A New Account of the Tales of the World) is a Chinese collection of anecdotes compiled about 430 under Liu Yiqing, a prince of the Liu Song dynasty. Its more than a thousand short episodes record the sayings and conduct of scholars, officials and aristocrats from the late Han to the Eastern Jin, preserving the witty 'pure conversation' (qingtan) of the period. It is a major source for the culture of the Eastern Jin elite.
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