Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.

Title

en_US Favorite Children's Stories from China and Tibet.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Fifth printing

en_US Lotta Carswell Hume

Creator

en_US Hume, Lotta Carswell

Contributor

en_US Koon-chiu, Lo

Date

2016-08-26T13:39:02Z

en_US 2015-07

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:39:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US "Twenty-four years ago I found a first paperback printing of this book from 1989. Now I have found a 2000 fifth printing of the original 1962 hardbound edition. The book is printed now in Singapore and the publisher is Tuttle Publishing rather than the Charles E. Tuttle Company. The typesetting of the title-page has changed. As I wrote then, this is a book of good contemporary popular Oriental art. Nineteen stories with over ninety illustrations, including twelve full-page illustrations in color in classic Chinese brush style. All of the colored pictures of tigers are particularly well done. Enjoy the excellent human faces on 51. The first of the stories, "Soo Tan the Tiger and the Little Green Frog" (9), is especially witty. "A Chinese Cinderella" (15) has a surprise epilogue. In the next story, the frog outwits the tiger by saying that he can exist on his own saliva (26). "The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey" (39) is common, but this version has an unusual twist: several monkey-hearts will be necessary. Closest to Aesop: "A Hungry Wolf" (55). Some stories have etiological elements: how, for example, did the deer get such a short stub of a tail (109)? "The Little Hare's Clever Trick" (115) is the common Kalila and Dimna story about fooling the lion, except that here there is no general contract with the lion and the hare himself is not a part of the reflection in the pool."

Identifier

en_US 10866 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91464

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tuttle Publishing

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.H885Fav 2000

en_US Chinese

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole