After finishing Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), he went straight on to Part II.
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history
Published in 1632 as the sequel to 初刻拍案惊奇 (1628), in 40 scrolls: 39 stories, one of them repeated from the first collection, and a short play at the end. The two are called 二拍, and with 冯梦龙's 三言 they form 三言二拍.
memory
拍案惊奇 'to slap the table in amazement' is the reaction the stories aim for, and 二刻 means 'second printing': 刻 is to carve the woodblocks a book was printed from.
