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Title
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Yu-yan-gu-shi: The Stories of Fables
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Bilingual Chinese Classics
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Description
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Language note: Bilingual English/Chinese
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Jayne Rutledge
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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NA?
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:49:30Z
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2006-02
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2005
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:49:30Z
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Date Issued
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2005
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Abstract
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Here are twenty-nine fables presented across from each other on facing pages. The right-hand (English) page contains notes, especially on idiomatic expressions. Each of the stories takes two pages in each language, with one line-drawing for each fable. The first story, illustrated on the cover, has monkeys trying to get the moon out of a well. The second fable, very apt, tells of a poor calligraphy-writing minister who got angry when his nephew could not reproduce his sloppy characters. Why didn't you ask me earlier? Now even I don't know them either (9). These fables are wise. The third tells of a man instructed by his wife in how to make soup. After some time, he took out a spoonful and tasted it; it needed salt, and he salted the soup. Unfortunately, each time he came back, he tasted the soup from the same spoonful. Of course the soup ended up oversalted and undrinkable. Another clever fable (75) tells of two young men who found the lair of a wolf that had terrorized their village. But how could two youths defeat a wolf? They noticed two cubs and took them up separate trees with them. When the wolf returned, they alternated pinching the cubs' ears, frustrating and wearing the wolf out until it died between the two trees. Though there are Aesopic fables here, most of these stories seem to be Chinese stories. MSA appears on 39, though the father and son are bringing the donkey home from market in this version. BW is on 67. This is a well-produced paperback.
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Identifier
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5827 (Access ID)
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Publisher
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Jilinwenshi Publisher
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Changchun City, Jilin Province, China
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Subject
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PN989.C5Y8 2005
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Aesop et al
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole