Chinese Fables & Parables: A Catalogus (Cover: Asian Monographs: Chinese Fables)

Title

en_US Chinese Fables & Parables: A Catalogus (Cover: Asian Monographs: Chinese Fables)

Description

Wolfram Eberhard

Creator

en_US Eberhard, Wolfram See all items with this value

Date

2020-01-23T19:30:38Z

2019-12

en_US 1971

Date Available

2020-01-23T19:30:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1971

Abstract

en_US Here is a curious book with a beautiful dust-jacket cover illustration suggesting a woman flying. The spine has yet a third title: "Fables and Parables: Tales of China." The first unusual feature is that the book really is a catalogue of over 500 different stories, each told in a concise paragraph. The second unusual feature is that the book is typewritten. The foreword points out that these fables are culled from modern publications. The Institute of International Studies at Cal Berkeley did the typing. I moved into the book curious to see how many Western fables might found their way into this collection. The answer is: none. A random sampling shows the stories to be charming and fully in the tradition I have come to expect from Chinese fables. There is an extensive AI at the end.

Identifier

en_US 12173 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125869

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Orient Cultural Service

en_US Taipei, Taiwan

Subject

en_US PN989.C5E2 1971 See all items with this value

Chinese See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value