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 = References =
 "Feng Menglong" (冯梦龙). 百度百科. Web. 06 Apr 2012. <http://baike.baidu.com/view/28749.htm>
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 *I also adapted plays.
 *I was sensitive enough to market potential that in 1615 he urged a publisher to offer a high price for the writer Shen Defu’s manuscript copy of The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei). 3 years before publication I espied some commercial promise here.
 = References =
 "Feng Menglong" (冯梦龙). 百度百科. Web. 06 Apr 2012. <http://baike.baidu.com/view/28749.htm>
 Text pages 121-127.

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		+	"Feng Menglong" (冯梦龙). 百度百科. Web. 06 Apr 2012. <http://baike.baidu.com/view/28749.htm>
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		+	*Friends: Eastern Forest partisans and later Revival Society members
		+	*Age 60: Accepted a courtesy appointment as a lowly official in an impoverished district.
		+	Applied myself in a variety of good works, including distributing medicine to the poor and reducing the rate of female infanticide, all detailed in the gazetteer I compiled in those days.
		+	*I had works ranging from classical commentary to ribald folk songs.
		+	Great achievements in almost every genre of nonelite literature: vernacular fiction long and short, jokes, anecdotes, drama, and popular song.
		+	*I also adapted plays.
		+	*I was sensitive enough to market potential that in 1615 he urged a publisher to offer a high price for the writer Shen Defu’s manuscript copy of The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei). 3 years before publication I espied some commercial promise here.

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 == Oppression of Women ==
 == Fights and Struggles of the Feudal Ruling Classes ==
 After middle Ming, there were even more corruption among the feudal ruling classes than before and the power struggles among the rulers are were more intense, and these became the foundation for the literary works during the time.
 Sometime during Song Dynasty, there was this old guy (秋先); he used to be a farmer and has acres of land and a cottage (草房).

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 "Unlike contemporary works of erotica or entertainment, in which the didactic content was secondary (or even ironic), these stories treat the reward of the good and the punishment of the bad as a matter of great seriousness. The protagonists are usually people of humble background, but the moral questions they confront are not in the least trivialized" ().
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 = Major Works =
-My most important work is the "Three Words" (三言 = Sanyan). "Three Words" is a collection of three different books: Clear Words to Instruct the World (喻世明言 = Yushi mingyan)
+My most important work is the "Three Words" (三言 = Sanyan). "Three Words" is a collection of three different books: Clear Words to Instruct the World (喻世明言 = Yushi mingyan) = Stories Old and New (Gujin xiaoshuo = 古今小说), Comprehensive Words to Warn the World (Jingshi tongyan = 警世通言), and Constant Words to Awaken the World(Xingshi hengyan = 醒世恒言).
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 To me, ethical earnestness and suspicion of traditional elite forms and accepted wisdom can coexist. In my works, I cited the writings that supported this point because I believe that the "division that makes the most sense lies not between professionals and amateurs, but between ivory-tower pedantry and moral teachings that everyone, no matter how humble, can practice" (122-123).
-My own works would almost always contain some kind of morality. In my stories, the greatest sins in the world is "prudishness and hypocritical self-righteousness, while no shame attaches to earning honest money even, for example, as a beggar" (123). It is because of this belief I am sometimes known as the first commercially successful writer: before, literature is shared by being passed among people and writer are not supposed to take money in exchange for their work. Sometimes, if a writer wanted another writer to promote or write a preface for his work, they will pay money in forms of bribes because giving payment is considered improper. I however, was sure that writing can be just as good a profession as any other, so I took money for my writings and made sure it was legal and out in the open.
+My own works would almost always contain some kind of morality. In my stories, the greatest sins in the world is "prudishness and hypocritical self-righteousness, while no shame attaches to earning honest money even, for example, as a beggar" (123). It is because of this belief that led to my being the first commercially successful writer. Before, literature is shared by being passed among people and writer are not supposed to take money in exchange for their work. Sometimes, if a writer wanted another writer to promote or write a preface for his work, he would pay money in the form of a bribe because giving payment is considered improper. I, however, was sure that writing can be just as good a profession as any other, so I took money for my writings and made sure it was legal and out in the open.
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		+	To me, ethical earnestness and suspicion of traditional elite forms and accepted wisdom can coexist. In my works, I cited the writings that supported this point because I believe that the "division that makes the most sense lies not between professionals and amateurs, but between ivory-tower pedantry and moral teachings that everyone, no matter how humble, can practice" (122-123).

		+	My own works would almost always contain some kind of morality. In my stories, the greatest sins in the world is "prudishness and hypocritical self-righteousness, while no shame attaches to earning honest money even, for example, as a beggar" (123). It is because of this belief I am sometimes known as the first commercially successful writer: before, literature is shared by being passed among people and writer are not supposed to take money in exchange for their work. Sometimes, if a writer wanted another writer to promote or write a preface for his work, they will pay money in forms of bribes because giving payment is considered improper. I however, was sure that writing can be just as good a profession as any other, so I took money for my writings and made sure it was legal and out in the open.

	= Major Works =		= Major Works =