Everyday Chinese: 60 Fables and Anecdotes

Title

en_US Everyday Chinese: 60 Fables and Anecdotes

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US First edition

en_US Zhong Qin

Creator

en_US Zhong, Jin See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Keguan, Bi

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:40Z

en_US 2003-11

en_US 1983

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US The introduction explains that the author has tried to tell these sixty stories in a vocabulary of about two thousand words. There are grammar notes and vocabulary lists. The English translations are on 239-62. The stories are simple enough. I read the first fifteen. Two myopic men boast of their eyesight--and prove it by reading a plaque which, as they then learn, has not been hung yet (#3). A man cannot interest anyone in the horse he wants to sell--until he asks a horse-expert just to look at his horse and pass on. When he does so, a crowd flocks to buy the horse--at ten times the price for which no one would look at him (#9). The new magistrate swears an oath asking that whichever of his hands takes a bribe should rot; when the first gift of silver coins arrives, a clever servant suggests that he take it not in his hand but in his sleeve (#12). A clever doctor cures a hunchback, as promised, by sandwiching him between two boards and so killing him (#13). An envoy who is insulted as incompetent by people in the country to which he is sent explains that his country selects envoys according to the character of the people to whom they are to be sent (#15).

Identifier

en_US 835110869

en_US 4719 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80348

Language

en_US chi

Publisher

en_US Distributed by China Publications Centre

en_US Beijing, China

Subject

en_US PL1129.E5 C47 1983 See all items with this value

en_US Chinese See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole