Iu-Kiao-Li



Yu Jiao Li, known in the West as Iu-Kiao-Li: or, the Two Fair Cousins, is an early-Qing Chinese caizi jiaren ("scholar and beauty") novel by Zhang Yun (張勻).

Yu Jiao Li is one of the best-known caizi jiaren novels, together with Ping Shan Leng Yan, and Haoqiu zhuan. The English version published by Hunt and Clarke of London in 1827 is an adaptation of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat's French translation.

The novel is about two cousins, Bai Hongyu and Lu Mengli, how they both fell in love with the handsome scholar Su Youbai.

Characters
Two of the antagonist characters, Zhang Guiru and Su Youde, plagiarize poems written by other people and pretend to be poets. Pseudo-caizi are foils to the real caizi in caizi jiaren stories.

Illustrations of characters and scenes from the novel