Fable Stories
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This paperbound book 6¾" x 9¼" has 39 stories on 198 pages. They include mostly Chinese stories with some other fables mixed in, like the story of the fox showing the tiger that he, the fox, is king of animals -- just by having the tiger walk behind him as he confronted other animals (51-54). Curiously, this story is titled "The Fox Adorns Himself with Borrowed Plumes from the Tiger." That is using one fable to explain another! Some stories move beyond the realm of fable, I would say, like the story of the four dragons painted beautifully on a wall (61-66). People asked the artist "Why don't they have eyes?" "If they did," he answered, "they would fly away." He then painted eyes on two of them, and they promptly flew away! Some are confessedly silly. A young man has trouble carrying a long pole through a gate. He tries holding it horizontally and vertically but cannot pass through. A supposedly wise man counsels him to cut it in half, and now he can carry it through. Neither was smart enough to hold the pole with the tip forward (76-81). As the moral claims, "Both are silly!" Generally there is one line of text within each cartoon drawing, with three or four drawings on a page. The characters are typical of Asian cartoon work.
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Hanban: Confucious Institute Headquarters: China lntercontinental Press
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11536 (Access ID)