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Originally published in 1958.
This collection consists of twenty-two short stories written in the Tang, Sung, Ming and Ching (Manchu) dynasties covering a period of thirteen hundred years. The characters portrayed range from emperors and courtiers, scholars and strategists, courtesans and story-tellers, ordinary peasants and men in the street, love-lorn young men and women, hermits and magic workers, to fairies and immortals. They are representative of many facets of life in old China, as many, indeed, as can be fitted into a handy volume.
The translator and compiler of these stories, Dr. W. W. Yen (1877-1950) was a scholar and a diplomat.
This collection consists of twenty-two short stories written in the Tang, Sung, Ming and Ching (Manchu) dynasties covering a period of thirteen hundred years. The characters portrayed range from emperors and courtiers, scholars and strategists, courtesans and story-tellers, ordinary peasants and men in the street, love-lorn young men and women, hermits and magic workers, to fairies and immortals. They are representative of many facets of life in old China, as many, indeed, as can be fitted into a handy volume.
The translator and compiler of these stories, Dr. W. W. Yen (1877-1950) was a scholar and a diplomat.
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- PublisherForeign Language Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 083512374X
- ISBN 13 9780835123747
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages178
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