Item
Chinese Fables
- Title
- en_US Chinese Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Kathy Ch'iu
- Creator
- en_US Lyle, Katherine Chiu See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Aronson, Irene
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:54:12Z
- en_US 1993-09
- en_US 1967
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:54:12Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1967
- Abstract
- en_US A highly heterogeneous collection of short Chinese materials. Many are more properly anecdotes, wise sayings, or Confucian quips. Among the best: Blessing in Disguise (5), A Compassionate Man (21), One Thousand-Li Horse (30), The Fox Who Profited (37), and The Tricky Hunter (37). Two stories typical of the collection are Cooking the Goose (40) and Self-Contradiction (41). Several stories look like Aesopic material nicely adapted. The tortoise in The Stupid Tortoise (14) felt hurt to hear that people were finding the egrets (not ducks) carrying him clever. The scholar in The Wolf and the Scholar (31) gets the wolf back into a bag (not a trap or cage). A Bundle of Arrows (39) replaces the Aesopic bundle of sticks. Finally, The Fox and the Raven (43) adapts references nicely to Chinese history and etiquette.
- Identifier
- en_US 1590 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Peter Pauper Press
- en_US Mount Vernon, NY
- Subject
- en_US PN989.C5 L9 1967 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books