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Title
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Everyday Chinese: 60 Fables and Anecdotes
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Description
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Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese
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First edition
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Zhong Qin
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Creator
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Zhong, Jin
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Contributor
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Keguan, Bi
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:13:40Z
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2003-11
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1983
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:13:40Z
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Date Issued
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1983
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Abstract
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The introduction explains that the author has tried to tell these sixty stories in a vocabulary of about two thousand words. There are grammar notes and vocabulary lists. The English translations are on 239-62. The stories are simple enough. I read the first fifteen. Two myopic men boast of their eyesight--and prove it by reading a plaque which, as they then learn, has not been hung yet (#3). A man cannot interest anyone in the horse he wants to sell--until he asks a horse-expert just to look at his horse and pass on. When he does so, a crowd flocks to buy the horse--at ten times the price for which no one would look at him (#9). The new magistrate swears an oath asking that whichever of his hands takes a bribe should rot; when the first gift of silver coins arrives, a clever servant suggests that he take it not in his hand but in his sleeve (#12). A clever doctor cures a hunchback, as promised, by sandwiching him between two boards and so killing him (#13). An envoy who is insulted as incompetent by people in the country to which he is sent explains that his country selects envoys according to the character of the people to whom they are to be sent (#15).
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Identifier
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835110869
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4719 (Access ID)
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Language
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chi
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Publisher
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Distributed by China Publications Centre
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Beijing, China
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Subject
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PL1129.E5 C47 1983
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Chinese
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole