Iu-Kiao-Li


Yu Jiao Li, known in the West as Iu-Kiao-Li: or, the Two Fair Cousins, is an early-Qing Chinese caizi jiaren novel by Zhang Yun.
Yu Jiao Li is one of the best-known caizi jiaren novels, together with Ping Shan Leng Yan, and Haoqiu zhuan. The English version published by Hunt and Clarke of London in 1827 is an adaptation of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat's French translation.

Characters

Two characters, Zhang Guiru and Su Youde, plagiarize poems written by other people and pretend to be poets. Pseudo-caizi are foils to the real caizi in caizi jiaren stories.