A copy of the novel Tiehua xianshi from the Harvard-Yenching Library
Pages from a Japanese edition of the novel

Tiehua xianshi (traditional Chinese: 鐵花仙史; simplified Chinese: 铁花仙史), also translated into English as A History of the Immortal and Iron Flower[1] or History of the Iron-Flower Immortals,[2] is a Chinese novel of the Qing dynasty. Its authorship is ascribed to Yunfeng Shanren (雲封山人), which is a pseudonym.[3] The novel consists of 26 chapters and was written in the Kangxi era (1662-1722). It is often categorized as a "caizi jiaren" romance novel, however, the novel also has various adventure elements that would be considered as part of "wuxia" (chivalry and martial-arts) and fantasy genres, and it is not simply just a love story.

Citations

  1. ↑ Huang, Martin W. (2006). Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China. University of Hawaiʻi Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780824828967.
  2. ↑ Brokaw, Cynthia J. (2020). Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Brill. p. 489.
  3. ↑ "《铁花仙史》". 《中国大百科全书》第三版网络版 (in Chinese).
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