Ancient Chinese Fables

Title

en_US Ancient Chinese Fables

en_US Library of Chinese Classics

en_US 0

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US First edition

Yang Xianyi, Gladys Yang et al

Creator

en_US Xianyi, Yang

Contributor

en_US Zikai, Feng

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:16Z

2018-07

en_US 2008

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 2008

Abstract

en_US This book is apparently a new publication of old images by Feng Zikai and old texts well translated by Xianyi and Yang, a married couple. My most recent other copy of their work has the same title in 1981/83. The placement of material has changed slightly. Several images may have been dropped. An 86-page paperback has become a hardbound book of 296 pages. The expansion is caused especially by giving each fable in Chinese and English on facing pages and starting a new pair of pages for every fable. I reread old favorites from the earlier version and enjoyed them again. The book now belongs to a series, "Library of Chinese Classics," and significant introductory material in both languages has been added. The stories are the same 121 fables from various eras. I recommend especially "Suspicion" (7), "The Title-Deed Lost on the Road" (19), "The Bird Killed by Kindness" (35), the work of Han Fei Zi (75-101), the material from the "Warring States Anecdotes" (105-127), "The Holy Eel" (165), "The Donkey of Guizhou" (187), "The Compassionate Man" (217), and" A Good Man Is Easy to Bully" (259).

Identifier

en_US 11837 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125543

Language

en_US eng|chi

Publisher

en_US Foreign Languages Press

en_US Beijing

Subject

Chinese