Folk Tales from China: Second Series

Title

Folk Tales from China: Second Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US No Author

Creator

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Contributor

Ku, Mi

Date

2016-04-20T15:51:35Z

2015-07

1958

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:35Z

Date Issued

1958

Abstract

en_US There are a number of fables here. TT (9) is told as a Tibetan story, and there is a good black-and-white image to enhance it. "Plop!" (30) is the familiar story of the end of the world. In this case the repeated line is "Plop is coming!" "The Rabbit's Revenge" (33) is the KD story about the lion seeing another lion in the well and attacking him. "The Fox Who Pretended to Be King" (36) is the familiar story of the blue jackal. "The Fox, the Monkey, the Hare and the Horse" (82), a Han story, has the age-old story turn of tying one's tail to the tail of a wild beast; here it is the fox that ties his tail to that of the horse. Good luck, fox! "There are black-and-white images along the way, but the best images in the book are colored images claiming a full page for themselves. "The Tiger Finds a Teacher" (78) has perhaps the best illustration in the whole book (80). This story has the motif of the teacher not teaching the prize student quite everything that the teacher knows. In this case, the cat does not teach the tiger how to climb trees. Among my favorite images is "The Hare and the Merchant" (20): friendly animals get two visiting moneymakers to attack each other. "The Water-Buffalo and the Tiger" (85) features a fight between the two, but the former surrounds himself with a layer of straw and a layer of mud that protect him in the battle. The buffalo then invites the tiger to three bites followed by three butts from the buffalo. The tiger naturally accepts. The story has a colorful illustration.

Identifier

en_US 10695 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85476

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Foreign Languages Press

en_US Peking

Subject

en_US GR335.F642 1958 See all items with this value

Chinese See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole