![]() ![]() ![]() Most were purchased by the "artisan class and above", as the lower classes did not have the money or time to read them. They varied in style: some were sensational, while others conveyed a moral message. Hundreds of pamphlets, broadsides, chapbooks and other street literature about murders and other crimes were published from 1550 to 1700 in Britain as literacy increased and cheap new printing methods became widespread. Works in the related Chinese genre of court case fiction (gong'an xiaoshuo), such as the 16th-century Cases of Magistrate Bao, were either inspired by historical events or else purely fictional. 1617) is a late Ming dynasty collection of stories about allegedly true cases of fraud. ![]()
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