Item
Selected Fables (Chinese)
- Title
- en_US Selected Fables (Chinese)
- en_US Translation Series of Ancient Chinese Classics
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese
- en_US First printing
- Zhuang Zhou et al; modern translation by Zhao Chongxing; English translation to Yang Xianyi, Gladys Dai et al
- Creator
- en_US Zhou, Zhuang See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Cemetery, Fan Jin
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:15Z
- 2024-03
- en_US 2002
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:15Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2002
- Abstract
- en_US Line drawings. T of C at the beginning. I do not notice any Western fables. Striking among the early fables here is "The Chicken Thief" (16). By the way, page numbers are only in Chinese. A daily thief of chickens was admonished and promised to cut down to one a month. Why still one a month if stealing them is wrong? "The Snipe and the Mussel" (33 ) is like our rat and oyster fable: snipe pecks at opening mussel and mussel clamps down. Both wait for the other to die. A fisherman comes and catches them both. "The Cicada, the Praying Mantis, and the Sparrow" (60) is the story of each predator not realizing that there is a bigger predator behind him, the last predator being a man with a catapult ready to get the sparrow. There are full-page line drawings along the way. 5¼" x 8". 313 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 13535 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US New World Publishing House
- en_US Beijing
- Subject
- Chinese See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books