Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library: Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
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Includes index.
Tales of enchantment and magic: Cricket -- Waiting maid's parrot -- Sea prince -- Girl in green -- Butterfly dreams -- Suited to be a fish -- Li Ching and the rain god -- Jade leaves -- Wizard's lesson -- Priest of hardwork mountain -- White lotus magic -- Peach thief -- Tales of folly and greed: Magic pear tree -- Wine well -- Gold, Gold -- Stump watching -- Buying shoes -- Missing axe -- Overdoing it -- Horsetrader -- Silver swindle -- Family's fortune -- Leaf -- Tiger behind the fox -- Rich man of Sung -- Flying bull -- Social connections -- Small favor -- Pitted loquats -- Memory trouble -- Medical techniques -- Lost horse -- Deer in the dream -- Loss of memory -- Sun -- Animal kingdom: Faithful mouse -- Loyal dog -- Black and white -- Dog goes to court -- Tale of the trusty tiger -- Repentant tiger of Chaoch'eng -- Tiger boys -- Human bait -- Educated frogs and martial ants -- Snakeman -- North country wolf -- Counselor to the wolves -- Monkey keeper -- Man and beast -- Man or beast -- Fish rejoice -- Wagging my tail in the mud -- Women and wives: Li Chi slays the serpent -- Black general -- Master and the serving maid -- Cure for jealousy -- Fortune teller -- Dead son -- Golden toothpick -- King's favorite -- Divided daughter -- Ghosts and souls: Scholar's concubine -- Three former lives -- Monk from Everclear -- Monk's sins -- Truth about ghosts -- Sung Ting-po catches a ghost -- Ai Tzu and the temple ghost -- Escaping ghosts -- Test of conviction -- Drinking companions -- Censor and the tiger -- Underworld justice -- Sharp sword -- Skull -- Judges and diplomats: Sheep butcher and his king -- Prime minister's coachman -- Royal jewel -- Country of thieves -- Strategy -- Buying loyalty -- Groom's crimes -- Chain -- Hearsay -- Dreams -- Mortal lord -- One word solves a mystery -- Wise judge -- Clever judge -- Fine Phoenix -- Sun tribute -- Unofficial history of the Confucian Academy: Nature -- Civilization -- Note on the translation and transcription of Chinese -- List of sources -- Index of the tales.
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Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library
PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, c1979.
Year Published: 1979
Description: xx, 258 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0394739949
9780394739946
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Roberts, Moss, 1937-
SUBJECTS
Fantasy fiction, Chinese -- Translations into English.
Fantasy fiction, English -- Translations from Chinese.
Fairy tales -- China -- Translations into English.
Fairy tales -- China.
Fantasy fiction, English.
Fantasy fiction.
Fairy tales.