Tiehua xianshi

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.

A copy of the novel Tiehua xianshi from the Harvard-Yenching Library

Pages from a Japanese edition of the novel

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).