Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2009-01-11 Public domain in the USA. 210 Wu, Jianren 1866 1910 吳趼人 吴趼人 Wu, Woyao Wu, Chien-jen Wu, Yanren 瞎騙奇聞 Xia pian qi wen 瞎骗奇闻 Produced by Fang-Hsuan Hsu "瞎騙奇聞" by Jianren Wu is a fictional novel written in the late 19th century. The book delves into themes of superstition and the obsession with fortune-telling, examining the lives of characters who rely on the guidance of soothsayers. The story focuses on Zhao Zechang, a wealthy landowner, who desperately longs for a child and becomes entangled in the often ridiculous and destructive world of fortune-telling. The opening of the novel introduces Zhao Zechang, a prosperous landowner in Shandong Province, who has been unable to father a child despite having been married for over thirty years. Desperate for offspring, he becomes increasingly invested in fortune-telling, seeking out a renowned soothsayer named Zhou to learn about his future. Zhou predicts that Zhao will have a son soon, prompting Zhao and his wife, Qiannai, to embrace this prophecy. In a comical twist, they concoct a scheme to bring in an adopted child to satisfy Zhao's yearning for a son, leading to further complications and engaging interactions that lay the groundwork for the novel’s exploration of human folly and superstition. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 29.1 (College graduate level). Very difficult to read. zh Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 PL Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Novels 150021 2025-06-11T12:17:41.111494 text/html 149842 2025-01-11T15:07:00.638239 text/html 120087 2025-06-11T12:17:45.196978 application/epub+zip 120946 2025-06-11T12:17:42.820494 application/epub+zip 120945 2025-06-11T12:17:41.711508 application/epub+zip 221397 2025-06-11T12:17:46.966983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 215560 2025-06-11T12:17:44.550977 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 186768 2022-09-13T04:45:14.263510 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 141595 2025-06-11T12:17:40.864521 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 141470 2021-01-04T15:44:53 text/plain; charset=utf-8 60462 2021-01-04T15:44:53 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 17645 2025-06-11T12:17:47.106973 application/rdf+xml 8528 2025-06-11T12:17:42.263481 image/jpeg 2577 2025-06-11T12:17:41.988473 image/jpeg 118610 2025-06-11T12:17:41.125504 application/octet-stream application/zip zh.wikipedia