 Cover of a 1934 edition of What the Master Would Not Discuss | |
| Author | Yuan Mei |
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| Original title | 子不語 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Biji, Gods and demons fiction, supernatural, fantasy, adventure |
Publication date | 1788 CE |
| Publication place | Qing dynasty China |
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| What the Master Would Not Discuss | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 子不語 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 子不语 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | master not discuss | ||||||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 新齊諧 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新齐谐 | ||||||||||||||
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What the Master Would Not Discuss (Zibuyu), alternatively known as Xin Qixie, is a collection of supernatural stories compiled by Qing Dynasty scholar and writer Yuan Mei.[1] The original collection consist of over 700 stories.
The work has also been translated as What the Master Does not Speak of[2] and other such titles, as well as Censored by Confucius in one English-language translated work of selected tales.[3]