The Ten Thousand Things is a historical novel by author and playwright John Spurling, based on life of 14th-century Chinese artist Wang Meng during the Yuan dynasty.

[4] A bandit under her pseudonym "White Tigress" approaches him seeking help in avenging her husband's wrongful death by the magistrate.

The political landscape of China changes drastically with the Yuan dynasty falling and a peasant-turned-king holding the reins, with whom Wang had interacted long ago in a monastery.

[5][7] In 2015, the novel won Spurling the Walter Scott Prize, an award given for best historical novel which is set at least 60 years back in history.

[9] Kirkus Reviews summarizes the novel to be a "work of art in itself" and notes its strength to be "the rich detail that sets the reader in the middle of China".