Translated titles in this table mainly follow those by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang in {{cite book|title=Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0295978444}} Titles used by other translators are listed as bullet points.
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| # | Title(s) of English Translation(s) | Chinese Title | Notes |
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| 1 | "Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt"
- Birch 1958:
[{{cite book|last=Birch|first=Cyril|title=Stories from a Ming Collection: Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century|year=1958|publisher=The Bodley Head}}] "The Pearl-sewn Shirt"
- Kelly 1978: "The Pearl Shirt Reencountered"
[{{cite book|last=Kelly|first=Jeanne|chapter=The Pearl Shirt Reencountered|pages=264–292|editor1-last=Ma|editor1-first=Y. W.|editor2-last=Lau|editor2-first=Joseph S. M.|title=Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations|year=1978|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231040598}}]
|蔣興哥重會珍珠衫 | |
| 2 | "Censor Chen Ingeniously Solves the Case of the Gold Hairpins and Brooches"
- Chu 1929: "The Clever Judgment of Censor Chen Lien"
[{{cite journal|last=Chu|first=E. C.|title=The Clever Judgment of Censor Chen Lien|journal=The China Journal|volume=X|issue=1|date=January 1929|pages=59–66}}]
- Yao 1975: "The Case of the Gold Hairpins"
[{{cite journal|last=Yao|first=P. C.|title=The Case of the Gold Hairpins|journal=Renditions|issue=5|pages=118–136|date=Autumn 1975}}]
|陳御史巧勘金釵鈿
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| 3 | "Han the Fifth Sells Her Charms in New Bridge Town"
- Bishop 1956:
[{{cite book|last=Bishop|first=John Lyman|title=The Colloquial Short Stories in China: A Study of the San-Yen Collections|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1956}}] "Chin-nu Sells Love at Newbridge"
- Miller et al. 1978: "Han Wu-niang Sells Her Charms at the New Bridge Market"
[{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Robert C.|chapter=Han Wu-niang Sells Her Charms at the New Bridge Market|pages=312–324|editor1-last=Ma|editor1-first=Y. W.|editor2-last=Lau|editor2-first=Joseph S. M.|title=Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations|year=1978|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231040598|display-authors=etal}}]
|新橋市韓五賣春情
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| 4 | "Ruan San Redeems His Debt in Leisurely Clouds Nunnery" | 閑雲庵阮三償冤債 | |
| 5 | "Penniless Ma Zhou Meets His Opportunity through a Woman Selling Pancakes"
- Birch 1958:
[ "Wine and Dumplings"]
|窮馬周遭際賣䭔媼
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| 6 | "Lord Ge Gives Away Pearl Maiden" | 葛令公生遣弄珠兒 | |
| 7 | "Yang Jiao'ai Lays Down His Life for the Sake of Friendship"
- Dolby 1976: "Yang Jiao Throws Away His Life in Fulfilment of a Friendship"
[{{cite book|last=Dolby|first=William|title=The Perfect Lady by Mistake and Other Stories by Feng Menglong (1574–1646)|year=1976|publisher=P. Elek|isbn=0236400029|chapter=Yang Jiao Throws Away His Life in Fulfilment of a Friendship}}]
|羊角哀捨命全交
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| 8 | "Wu Bao'an Abandons His Family to Ransom, His Friend"
- Birch 1958: "The Journey of the Corpse"
- Kwan-Terry 1978: "Wu Pao-an Ransoms His Friend"
[{{cite book|last=Kwan-Terry|first=John|chapter=Wu Pao-an Ransoms His Friend|pages=4–18|editor1-last=Ma|editor1-first=Y. W.|editor2-last=Lau|editor2-first=Joseph S. M.|title=Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations|year=1978|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231040598}}]
|吳保安棄家贖友
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| 9 | "Duke Pei of Jin Returns a Concubine to Her Rightful Husband" | 裴晉公義還原配 | |
| 10 | "Magistrate Teng Settles the Case of Inheritance with Ghostly Cleverness"
- Yang & Yang 1957:
[{{cite book|last=Yang Hsien-yi|author-link=Yang Hsien-yi|last2=Yang|first2=Gladys|author2-link=Gladys Yang|title=The Courtesan's Jewel Box: Chinese Stories of the Xth–XVIIth Centuries|publisher=Foreign Languages Press|year=1957}}] "The Hidden Will"
- Zonana et al. 1978: "Magistrate T'eng and the Case of Inheritance"
[{{cite book|last=Zonana|first=Susan Arnold|chapter=Magistrate T'eng and the Case of Inheritance|pages=485–502|editor1-last=Ma|editor1-first=Y. W.|editor2-last=Lau|editor2-first=Joseph S. M.|title=Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations|year=1978|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231040598}}]
|滕大尹鬼斷家私
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| 11 | "Zhao Bosheng Meets with Emperor Renzong in a Teahouse" | 趙伯升茶肆遇仁宗 | |
| 12 | "The Courtesans Mourn Liu the Seventh in the Spring Breeze" | 眾名姬春風弔柳七 | |
| 13 | "Zhang Daoling Tests Zhao Sheng Seven Times" | 張道陵七試趙昇 | |
| 14 | "Chen Xiyi Rejects Four Appointments from the Imperial court" | 陳希夷四辭朝命 | |
| 15 | "The Dragon-and-Tiger Reunion of Shi Hongzhao the Minister and his Friend the King" | 史弘肇龍虎君臣會 | |
| 16 | "The Chicken-and-Millet Dinner for Fan Juqing, Friend in Life and Death"
- Bishop 1956:
[ "Fan Chü-ch'ing's Eternal Friendship"]
|范巨卿雞黍死生交
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| 17 | "Shan Fulang's Happy Marriage in Quanzhou" | 單符郎全州佳偶 | |
| 18 | "Yang Balao's Extraordinary Family Reunion in the Land of Yue"
- Yang & Yang 1981:
[{{cite book|last=Yang Hsien-yi|author-link=Yang Hsien-yi|last2=Yang|first2=Gladys|author2-link=Gladys Yang|title=Lazy Dragon: Chinese Stories from the Ming Dynasty|publisher=Joint Publishing|year=1981|isbn=9620401360}}] "The Strange Adventures of Yang Balao"
|楊八老越國奇逢 | |
| 19 | "Yang Qianzhi Meets a Monk Knight-Errant on a Journey by Boat" | 楊謙之客舫遇俠僧 | |
| 20 | "Chen Congshan Loses His Wife on Mei Ridge" | 陳從善梅嶺失渾家 | |
| 21 | "Qian Poliu Begins His Career in Lin'an" | 臨安里錢婆留發跡 | |
| 22 | "Zheng Huchen Seeks Revenge in Mumian Temple" | 木綿庵鄭虎臣報冤 | |
| 23 | "Zhang Shunmei Finds a Fair Lady during the Lantern Festival" | 張舜美燈宵得麗女 | |
| 24 | "Yang Siwen Meets an Old Acquaintance in Yanshan"
- Yang & Yang 1961: "Strange Encounter in the Northern Capital"
[{{cite journal|last=Yang Hsien-yi|last2=Yang|first2=Gladys|date=December 1961|journal=Chinese Literature|title=Strange Encounter in the Northern Capital|pages=45–67}}]
|楊思溫燕山逢故人
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| 25 | "Yan Pingzhong Kills Three Men with Two Peaches" | 晏平仲二桃殺三士 | |
| 26 | "Shen Xiu Causes Seven Deaths with One Bird"
- Bishop 1956:
[ "Master Shen's Bird Destroys Seven Lives"]
- Birch 1958:
[ "The Canary Murders"]
|沈小官一鳥害七命
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| 27 | "Jin Yunu Beats the Heartless Man"
- Yang & Yang 1957:
[ "The Beggar Chief's Daughter"]
- Birch 1958:
[ "The Lady Who Was a Beggar"]
|金玉奴棒打薄情郎
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| 28 | "Li Xiuqing Marries the Virgin Huang with Honor" | 李秀卿義結黃貞女 | |
| 29 | "Monk Moon Bright Redeems Willow Green" | 月明和尚度柳翠 | |
| 30 | "Abbot Mingwu Redeems Abbot Wujie" | 明悟禪師趕五戒 | |
| 31 | "Sima Mao Disrupts Order in the Underworld and Sits in Judgement" | 鬧陰司司馬貌斷獄 | |
| 32 | "Humu Di Intones Poems and Visits the Netherworld" | 游酆都胡母迪吟詩 | |
| 33 | "Old Man Zhang Grows Melons and Marries Wennu"
- Birch 1958:
[ "The Fairy's Rescue"]
|張古老種瓜娶文女
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| 34 | "Mr. Li Saves a Snake and Wins Chenxin" | 李公子救蛇獲稱心 | |
| 35 | "The Monk with a Note Cleverly Tricks Huangfu's Wife"
- Yang & Yang 1957:
[ "The Monk's Billet-doux"]
|簡帖僧巧騙皇甫妻
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| 36 | "Song the Fourth Greatly Torments Tightwad Zhang"
- Wong 1978: "Sung the Fourth Raises Hell with Tightwad Chang"
[{{cite book|last=Wong|first=Timothy C.|author-link=Timothy C. Wong|chapter=Sung the Fourth Raises Hell with Tightwad Chang|pages=535–554|editor1-last=Ma|editor1-first=Y. W.|editor2-last=Lau|editor2-first=Joseph S. M.|title=Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations|year=1978|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231040598}}]
|宋四公大鬧禁魂張
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| 37 | "Emperor Wudi of the Liang Dynasty Goes to the Land of Extreme Bliss through Ceaseless Cultivation" | 梁武帝累修成佛 | |
| 38 | "Ren the Filial Son with a Fiery Disposition Becomes a God" | 任孝子烈性為神 | |
| 39 | "Wang Xinzhi Dies to Save the Entire Family"
- Hsia & Page 1985: "Wang Xinzhi's Death, and How It Saved His Whole Family"
[{{cite journal|last=Hsia|first=C. T.|author-link=C. T. Hsia|last2=Page|first2=John|title=Wang Xinzhi's Death, and How It Saved His Whole Family|journal=Renditions|issue=23|pages=6–30|date=Spring 1985}}]
|汪信之一死救全家
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| 40 | "Shen Xiaoxia Encounters the Expedition Memorials"
- Yang & Yang 1957:
[ "A Just Man Avenges"]
|沈小霞相會出師表
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