Yu-yan-gu-shi: The Stories of Fables

Title

en_US Yu-yan-gu-shi: The Stories of Fables

en_US Bilingual Chinese Classics

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual English/Chinese

en_US Jayne Rutledge

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US NA?

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:30Z

en_US 2006-02

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US Here are twenty-nine fables presented across from each other on facing pages. The right-hand (English) page contains notes, especially on idiomatic expressions. Each of the stories takes two pages in each language, with one line-drawing for each fable. The first story, illustrated on the cover, has monkeys trying to get the moon out of a well. The second fable, very apt, tells of a poor calligraphy-writing minister who got angry when his nephew could not reproduce his sloppy characters. Why didn't you ask me earlier? Now even I don't know them either (9). These fables are wise. The third tells of a man instructed by his wife in how to make soup. After some time, he took out a spoonful and tasted it; it needed salt, and he salted the soup. Unfortunately, each time he came back, he tasted the soup from the same spoonful. Of course the soup ended up oversalted and undrinkable. Another clever fable (75) tells of two young men who found the lair of a wolf that had terrorized their village. But how could two youths defeat a wolf? They noticed two cubs and took them up separate trees with them. When the wolf returned, they alternated pinching the cubs' ears, frustrating and wearing the wolf out until it died between the two trees. Though there are Aesopic fables here, most of these stories seem to be Chinese stories. MSA appears on 39, though the father and son are bringing the donkey home from market in this version. BW is on 67. This is a well-produced paperback.

Identifier

en_US 5827 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81310

Publisher

en_US Jilinwenshi Publisher

en_US Changchun City, Jilin Province, China

Subject

en_US PN989.C5Y8 2005 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop et al See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole