Appendix - The stories of Kuang-i chi

Summary

For convenient use this listing follows the order of stories as they appear, first in T'ai-p'ing kuang-chi, then in other sources, although there is no reason to believe that this reflects the order in the original collection. The textual data given here build upon the edition by Fang Shih-ming, published together with Ming-pao chi by Chung-hua shu-chü, Peking 1992. Some details are corrected, some new sources added. The present list aims to be inclusive: even when the attribution of a given story to Kuang-i chi is open to doubt, it still appears below. I have not followed Fang in assuming that all stories containing early dates or found in earlier collections are by that token wrongly attributed to Kuang-i chi: it seems at least possible that Tai Fu transcribed items from other collections into his own. A synopsis of content is given for all stories except those which for reasons of chronology cannot have appeared in the original Kuang-i chi. Minimal annotation covers matters of biographical or historical context, but concentrates on less routinely accessible sources. Thus, although place-names are recorded here, no effort is made to document them individually; no systematic references are given to standard early biographies, nor to Ch'ien Chungshu's observations on many items in his Kuan-chui pien, vol. 2, Peking 1979. These are easily found. But details are given of items translated into Western languages, which are scattered inconspicuously in various sources.