Chinese Fables and Cultural Stories

Title

en_US Chinese Fables and Cultural Stories

en_US Stories of Chinese Culture--A Bilingual Series

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US Compiled by Zhu Yifei, She Changmao, and Zhu Ying. Translated by Tang Dunyan and Cai Wenqian.

Creator

en_US She, Changmao

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:16Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1997

Abstract

en_US This is a helpful and representative little book. It is helpful because it brings together a number of excellent Chinese stories in a sturdy, compact, readable form also presenting the Chinese text and language helps to those who can use them. It is representative in this sense: I have read the first half of the 150 items here, and they are, apparently without exception, anecdotes rather than fables. From my experience, such stories are more representative of the Chinese than fables would be. They present especially the wise sayings of great people of the past. In some ways, reading a book like this is not that different an experience from reading Confucius' Analects. Among the best stories in the first half are these: The Crucian Carp Calls for Help (81), Cao Shang Acquires Carriages (84), The King of Chu Beats the Drum (116), A Man of Zheng Buys Shoes (133), Striving to Be the First and Fearing to Lag Behind (149), and especially Waiting for Hares by the Tree (180). Perhaps a third of the stories have simple black-and-white illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 7810460781 (pbk.)

en_US 3998 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79338

Language

en_US chi

Publisher

en_US Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press

en_US Shanghai

Subject

en_US PN989.C5 C56 1997

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole