Chinese Fables
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Lyle, Katherine Chiu
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1967
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A highly heterogeneous collection of short Chinese materials. Many are more properly anecdotes, wise sayings, or Confucian quips. Among the best: Blessing in Disguise (5), A Compassionate Man (21), One Thousand-Li Horse (30), The Fox Who Profited (37), and The Tricky Hunter (37). Two stories typical of the collection are Cooking the Goose (40) and Self-Contradiction (41). Several stories look like Aesopic material nicely adapted. The tortoise in The Stupid Tortoise (14) felt hurt to hear that people were finding the egrets (not ducks) carrying him clever. The scholar in The Wolf and the Scholar (31) gets the wolf back into a bag (not a trap or cage). A Bundle of Arrows (39) replaces the Aesopic bundle of sticks. Finally, The Fox and the Raven (43) adapts references nicely to Chinese history and etiquette.
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Peter Pauper Press
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1590 (Access ID)