Fables

Title

en_US Fables

en_US Modern Chinese Literature

Description

en_US Original language: chi

en_US First edition

en_US Feng Xuefeng, translated by Gladys Yang

Creator

en_US Feng, Xuefeng

Contributor

en_US Yongyu, Huang

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:34Z

en_US 2011-07

en_US 1983

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US I have from the same press earlier editions of this work, in 1953 and 1955, presenting the poet as Hsueh-Feng. The translator remains the same, as does the woodcut artist, formerly called Huang Yung-yu. What was a Publisher's Note has been developed into a Preface. The book's format is smaller and its production better. I will include remarks from those earlier editions. This softbound booklet contains fifty-one fables, often directly admonitory and/or of a highly political slant. Thus the author writes of skylarks Poets like these are the true friends of the people (5). The best of the fables, I believe, are The Snake and the Rabbit (42) and The Original Rat (87), which may also have the best illustration. Among the most overtly political are those on the imperialist weasel munching a duckling (38) and the imperialist snake against the collective bees (41). Other good fables include The Hunter and His Wife (16), The Lion and the Setting Sun (21), The Lion and the Lamb (49), The Fox and the Rabbits' Farm (56), The Curious Crow (64), The Cow and Her Rope (76), and The Cow and Her Calf (77). This edition seems to follow the order of the 1955 rather than the 1953 edition.

Identifier

en_US 9780835110853

en_US 7464 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82734

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Distributed by China Publications Centre (Guoji Shudian)

en_US Beijing

Subject

en_US PL2937.E64 F3 1983

en_US Hsueh-Feng

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole