# Kai Lung’s Golden Hours — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah.

- [Kai Lung's Golden Hours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/kai-lung-s-golden-hours.md): Kai Lung, a wandering storyteller, is arrested and imprisoned in Yu-ping. During his captivity, he uses his storytelling skills to navigate trials and ultimately secure his freedom, weaving tales that reflect themes of w
- [The Encountering of Six Within a Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/i-the-encountering-of-six-within-a-wood.md): Kai Lung, a traveling storyteller, rests in a wood on his way to Yu-ping and meets two maidens, one of whom is Hwa-mei. After they flee, he shares a meal with Li-loe, a sandal-maker who warns him of the dangerous Mandari
- [II: The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/ii-the-inexorable-justice-of-the-mandarin-shan-tien.md): Kai Lung is imprisoned in Yu-ping and placed in a walled enclosure with a shutter overlooking the yamen garden. Hwa-mei visits him, bringing fruit and advising him to use his storytelling skills to delay his trial. Li-lo
- [The Story of Wong Ts’in and the Willow Plate Embellishment](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-wong-ts-in-and-the-willow-plate-embellishment.md): Wong Ts'in, a wealthy porcelain maker, is tormented by an earth-demon he disturbed while building his house. He escapes its persecution by a ruse and wanders into the Outer Expanses, troubled by the problem of his daught
- [The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-Shu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/iii-the-degraded-persistence-of-the-effete-ming-shu.md): Kai Lung meets Hwa-mei at the shutter again. She brings fruit and reports that Ming-shu, foiled in his first attempt, now plans to use a tribesman named Cho-kow to falsely implicate Kai Lung in tomb-robbing. Kai Lung lea

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- [The Story of Ning, the Captive God, and the Dreams That Mark His Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-ning-the-captive-god-and-the-dreams-that-mark-his-race.md)
- [I: The Malice of the Demon, Leou](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/i-the-malice-of-the-demon-leou.md)
- [The Part Played by the Slave-Girl, Hia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/ii-the-part-played-by-the-slave-girl-hia.md)
- [The Incoming of the Youth, Tian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/iii-the-incoming-of-the-youth-tian.md)
- [Events Round Walled Ti-Foo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/iv-events-round-walled-ti-foo.md)
- [The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-Loe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/iv-the-inopportune-behaviour-of-the-covetous-li-loe.md)
- [The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-wong-pao-and-the-minstrel.md)
- [The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien's Lucky Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/v-the-timely-intervention-of-the-mandarin-shan-tien-s-lucky-day.md)
- [The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-lao-ting-and-the-luminous-insect.md)
- [The High-Minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-Mei](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/vi-the-high-minded-strategy-of-the-amiable-hwa-mei.md)
- [The Story of Weng Cho; or, the One Devoid of Name](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-weng-cho-or-the-one-devoid-of-name.md)
- [Not Concerned with Any Particular Attribute of Those Who Are Involved](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/vii-not-concerned-with-any-particular-attribute-of-those-who-are-involved.md)
- [The Story of Wang Ho and the Burial Robe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-wang-ho-and-the-burial-robe.md)
- [The Timely Disputation Among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/viii-the-timely-disputation-among-those-of-an-inner-chamber-of-yu-ping.md)
- [The Story of Chang Tao, Melodious Vision and the Dragon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-chang-tao-melodious-vision-and-the-dragon.md)
- [The Propitious Dissension Between Two Whose General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/ix-the-propitious-dissension-between-two-whose-general-attributes-have-already-been-sufficiently-described.md)
- [The Story of Yuen Yan, of the Barber Chou-Hu, and His Wife Tsae-Che](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-yuen-yan-of-the-barber-chou-hu-and-his-wife-tsae-che.md)
- [X: The Incredible Obtuseness of Those Who Had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/x-the-incredible-obtuseness-of-those-who-had-opposed-the-virtuous-kai-lung.md)
- [The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-hien-and-the-chief-examiner.md)
- [XI: Of Which It Is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons Become the Laughingstock of Shrimps”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/xi-of-which-it-is-written-in-shallow-water-dragons-become-the-laughingstock-of-shrimps.md)
- [The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two with Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/xii-the-out-passing-into-a-state-of-assured-felicity-of-the-much-enduring-two-with-whom-these-printed-leaves-have-chiefly-been-concerned.md)
- [The Story of the Loyalty of Ten-Teh, the Fisherman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/the-story-of-the-loyalty-of-ten-teh-the-fisherman.md)
- [Under the Dragon’s Wing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/i-under-the-dragon-s-wing.md)
- [The Message from the Outer Land](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/ii-the-message-from-the-outer-land.md)
- [III: The Last Service](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/kai_lung_s_golden_hours_se/chapters/iii-the-last-service.md)

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