Fortuitae affectuum otiosorum adumbrationes (titulo Sinico 閑情偶寄 Xianqing ouji) est congeries commentatiuncularum a Li Yu anno 1671 editarum, urbis Hanchei incola, qui ibi anno 1680 mortuus erit.
Inter placita gastronomica huius operis laus cancrorum Eriocheirum sinensium saepe, fructuum Myricae rubrae rarius citatur.
Fragmenta plura Anglice versa in Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937)
Lin Yutang, interpr., "On Charm in Women" in China Critic vol. 12 no. 11 (5 Martii 1936) p. 231
Helmut Martin, interpr., Li Li-weng ùber das Theater. Heidelbergae, 1966
Fragmentum in Jacques Pimpaneau, interpr., Anthologie de la littérature chinoise (Arelate: Philippe Picquier, 2004) pp. 897-901
Fragmentum in Martine Vallette-Hémery, interpr., Les paradis naturels. Jardins chinois en prose (Arelate: Philippe Picquier, 2001) pp. 139-144
Eruditio
Chun-Shu Chang, Shelley Hsueh-Lun Chang, Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yü's World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992
Patrick Hanan, The Invention of Li Yu (Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-674-46425-7) pp. 31-33, 185-207 et alibi
Andrea Stocken, Die Kunst der Wahrnehmung – Das Ästhetikkonzept des Li Yu (1610–1680) im Xianqing ouji im Zusammenhang von Leben und Werk. 2005. ISBN 3-447-05120-5
