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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours
Capítulos (13)
- Preface 0:00
- I: The Encountering of Six Within a Wood 9:34
- II: The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien 27:46
- III: The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-Shu 1:19:52
- IV: The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-Loe 2:23:06
- V: The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day 2:41:58
- VI: The High-Minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-Mei 3:24:04
- VII: Not Concerned with Any Particular Attribute of Those Who Are Involved 4:04:18
- VIII: The Timely Disputation Among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping 4:47:57
- IX: The Propitious Dissension Between Two Whose General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described 5:51:54
- X: The Incredible Obtuseness of Those Who Had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung 6:52:52
- XI: Of Which It Is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons Become the Laughingstock of Shrimps” 8:01:56
- XII: The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two with Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned 8:14:49
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Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung stories are set in a fantastical ancient China and written with an oblique, ornate prose style that serves to mimic that of Chinese folk tales. The titular character is an itinerant storyteller and the books themselves are mostly collections of stories presented as if he were narrating.
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours, published in 1922, is the second of the Kai Lung books, and the first to have an overarching framing narrative and thus be published as a novel. In it we see Kai Lung brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien, having been accused of treason by the Mandarin’s agent Ming-shu. Appealing to Shan Tien’s appreciation for refined narrative, Kai Lung tries to regain his freedom by spinning a series of beguiling tales filled with aphorisms and humorous understatement.