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Title
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en_US
Aesop's Fables/Basni Esopa (Chinese)
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Yiwen Classics
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Description
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Language note: Chinese
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Tenth printing
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Chinese translations by Wu Jianping and Yu Guopan
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Creator
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Jianping, Chinese Wu
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:10:35Z
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2025-01
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en_US
2023
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:10:35Z
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Date Issued
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2012
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Abstract
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en_US
Here is a curious book. It is a Chinese paperback 5¾” x 8¼” offering 299 pages of numbered fables. 429 are from Aesop, and then there are 82 from Phaedrus and 18 from Babrius. There are scarce and simple black-and-white illustrations along the way. It has been a long time since I have seen an illustration of a man trying to clean his black slave to be white (129). The source for at least the numbering of the fables is Perry, though I see no acknowledgement of him as source or mention of his numbering. A second curiosity for me is: Why a Russian title on both the cover and the title-page? At first I suspected it was a bilingual edition. My, the things our collection comes across!
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Identifier
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13682 (Access ID)
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Language
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chi
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Publisher
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Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Shanghai
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Subject
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Aesop