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Available
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Publication
Oxford University Press
Pages
195
Description
This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts and rain-makers, poor students and magicians, and the man who was nearly made into fishpaste. Throughout all these stories the author has kept the subtle oriental flavour of the originals and brings to life all the magic and mystery of China.
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Table of Contents:
Heaven and Earth and Man
1
The Greatest Archer
6
The Quellers of the Flood
17
The Dinner that Cooked Itself
33
How Marriages are Made
39
The Three Precious Packets
45
The Man Who Nearly Became Fishpaste
52
A Shiver of Ghosts
58
Magicians of the Way
76
The Inn of Donkeys
85
The Pavilion of Peril
91
The Rainmakers
97
Aunt Piety
109
Eggborn
119
The Text
134
Eterna
147
Recruits
161
Revolt
171
Heaven and Earth and Man
1
The Greatest Archer
6
The Quellers of the Flood
17
The Dinner that Cooked Itself
33
How Marriages are Made
39
The Three Precious Packets
45
The Man Who Nearly Became Fishpaste
52
A Shiver of Ghosts
58
Magicians of the Way
76
The Inn of Donkeys
85
The Pavilion of Peril
91
The Rainmakers
97
Aunt Piety
109
Eggborn
119
The Text
134
Eterna
147
Recruits
161
Revolt
171
Series
Collection
Language
Original language
Chinese
Original publication date
1961
Physical description
195 p.; 7.8 inches
ISBN
019275078X / 9780192750785
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J4A.Bir