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Title
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Folk Tales from China: Second Series
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Description
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en_US
This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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No Author
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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Ku, Mi
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Date
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2016-04-20T15:51:35Z
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2015-07
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1958
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Date Available
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2016-04-20T15:51:35Z
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Date Issued
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1958
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Abstract
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There are a number of fables here. TT (9) is told as a Tibetan story, and there is a good black-and-white image to enhance it. "Plop!" (30) is the familiar story of the end of the world. In this case the repeated line is "Plop is coming!" "The Rabbit's Revenge" (33) is the KD story about the lion seeing another lion in the well and attacking him. "The Fox Who Pretended to Be King" (36) is the familiar story of the blue jackal. "The Fox, the Monkey, the Hare and the Horse" (82), a Han story, has the age-old story turn of tying one's tail to the tail of a wild beast; here it is the fox that ties his tail to that of the horse. Good luck, fox! "There are black-and-white images along the way, but the best images in the book are colored images claiming a full page for themselves. "The Tiger Finds a Teacher" (78) has perhaps the best illustration in the whole book (80). This story has the motif of the teacher not teaching the prize student quite everything that the teacher knows. In this case, the cat does not teach the tiger how to climb trees. Among my favorite images is "The Hare and the Merchant" (20): friendly animals get two visiting moneymakers to attack each other. "The Water-Buffalo and the Tiger" (85) features a fight between the two, but the former surrounds himself with a layer of straw and a layer of mud that protect him in the battle. The buffalo then invites the tiger to three bites followed by three butts from the buffalo. The tiger naturally accepts. The story has a colorful illustration.
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Identifier
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10695 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Foreign Languages Press
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Peking
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Subject
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GR335.F642 1958
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Chinese
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole