Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 7, 2011 - Fiction - 288 pages
This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely Chinese and altogether entrancing.

With black-and-white drawings throughout
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
 

Contents

Sea Prince
15
Jade Leaves
30
The Peach Thief
45
The Missing Axe
58
Overdoing It
59
A Small Favor
74
The Sun
87
The Repentant Tiger of Chaocheng
100
The Master and the Serving Maid
137
The Golden Toothpick
150
The Monk from Everclear
165
Drinking Companions
178
Sharp Sword
195
The Sheep Butcher and His King
199
The Grooms Crimes
212
A Fine Phoenix
225

Counselor to the Wolves
119
Man and Beast
121
Nature
248
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About the author (2011)

MOSS ROBERTS is a professor of East Asian studies at New York University. He edited and translated Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, and also translated Luo Guanzhong's epic novel Three Kingdoms.

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