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The Raksha Country and the Sea Market fishermen shipwrecked on an unknown island, among other stories. According to Qing dynasty critic Feng Zhenluan (), "The Raksha Country and the Sea Market" comprises "two disconnected episodes". In the first, "zhiguai"-like episode, the protagonist Ma Ji encounters the monsters of the Raksha Country; the second, written in the "chuanqi" fashion, concerns Ma's voyage to the sea market, his subsequent romance with a dragon princess and their eventual parting of ways. Several commentators have suggested that the titular "sea market" is imaginary. Giles notes that it "is generally understood in the sense of "mirage", or some similar phenomenon". Liana Chen