Taozhu xinlu 陶朱新錄

Taozhu xinlu 陶朱新錄 "New stories from Taozhu" is a collection of stories written during the Song period 宋 (960-1279) by Ma Chun 馬純 (mid-12th cent.), courtesy name Ziyue 子約, style Puhui Weng 樸徽翁, a native of Wucheng 武城 in the prefecture of Danzhou 單州 (in present-day Hebei province). During the Shaoxing reign-era 紹興 (1131-1162), he served as transport commissioner (caoyunshi 漕運使) in Jiangxi. In the Longxing period 隆興 (1163-1164), he retired with the rank of Superior Grand Master of the Palace (taizhong dafu 太中大夫). He then resided in Taozhu Township 陶朱 in the region of Yue 越 (Zhejiang), where he gathered what he had seen and heard and compiled this book.

The book of 1 juan is not recorded in the bibliographical chapters of official histories or in book catalogues from the Song dynasty onwards. It appears only in later Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) sources, such as the Songshi yiwen zhi 宋史藝文志補 by Huang Yuji 黃虞稷 (1629-1691) and Ni Can 倪燦 (1626-1687), as well as in the Siku quanshu zongmu tiyao 四庫全書總目提要, where it is listed under the category of fiction (xiaoshuojia lei 小說家類).

The contents consist of unusual anecdotes and miscellaneous accounts from the Song period. The majority are essentially tales of the strange and supernatural and are generally of limited value.

The text is included in the series Siku quanshu 四庫全書, Shuofu 說郛, Wuchao xiaoshuo daguan 五朝小說大觀, Mohai jinhu 墨海金壺, Zhucong bielu 珠叢別錄 and Guangxi shijia xiaoshuo 廣西十家小說.