Lin er bao

{{Short description|17th c. Chinese romantic novel}}

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Lin er bao or Lin'er bao{{cite book |last=Huang |first= Martin W. |author-link= |date= 2006 |title=Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China |url= |location= | publisher= University of Hawaiʻi Press | page= 233 | isbn = 9780824828967 | quote = Lin'er bao}} ({{zh|t=麟兒報|s=麟儿报|first=t}}), also translated into English as Son of Good Fortune, is a Chinese romantic novel of the 17th-century written by an anonymous writer.{{cite web |url= https://www.zgbk.com/ecph/words?SiteID=1&ID=349394&Type=bkztb&SubID=151 |title= 《麟儿报》 |date= | website = 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 |publisher= |access-date= |quote= |language=zh}} The novel is often categorized as one of the caizi jiaren novels that were massively popular during the late Ming and early Qing eras.{{cite book |last=McMahon |first=Keith |author-link= |date= 1995 |title=Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction |url= |location= | publisher= Duke University Press | pages= 116, 308 }}

The earliest extant edition of the novel is a 1672 printed edition from the early Qing period that is now located in the Dalian Library.