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Chinese fables and folk stories

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How the moon became beautiful -- The animals' peace party -- The widow and her son -- The evergreen tree and the wilderness marigold -- The snail and the bees -- The proud chicken -- The lemon tree and the pumelo -- Woo Sing and the mirror -- Two mothers and a child -- A boy who would not tell a lie -- A great repentance and a great forgiveness -- The man who loved money better than life -- The hen and the Chinese mountain turtle -- The boy of perfect disposition -- What the Yen Tzi taught the hunter -- A lesson from Confucius -- The wind, the clouds, and the snow -- The fish and the flowers -- The hen, the cat, and the bird -- The boy who wanted the impossible -- The boy who became a Hsao-tsze -- The hunter, the snipe, and the bivalve -- The mule and the lion -- The Fa-Nien-Ts'ing and the Mön-Tien-Sing -- The body that deserted the stomach -- The proud fox and the crab -- A little Chinese rose -- The eagle and the rice birds -- The children and the dog -- The two mountains -- A Chinese prodigal son -- The lion and the mosquitoes -- The thief and the elephant -- The general, the bird, and the ant -- Three girls who went to a boys' school -- The rattan vine and the rose tree -- The melon and the professor.
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  • Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Resumen: "Chinese Fables and Folk Stories" by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung is a collection of 37 tales published in 1908. Billed as the first book of Chinese fables printed in English, this compilation emerged from an unexpected collaboration between a Chicago journalist and a Chinese reverend. The work captures ancient stories scattered across classical texts, bringing them to Western readers for the first time. Folklore scholars later recognized it as one of the most reliable collections of Chinese folktales published before 1937. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Release date is 2024-12-14

How the moon became beautiful -- The animals' peace party -- The widow and her son -- The evergreen tree and the wilderness marigold -- The snail and the bees -- The proud chicken -- The lemon tree and the pumelo -- Woo Sing and the mirror -- Two mothers and a child -- A boy who would not tell a lie -- A great repentance and a great forgiveness -- The man who loved money better than life -- The hen and the Chinese mountain turtle -- The boy of perfect disposition -- What the Yen Tzi taught the hunter -- A lesson from Confucius -- The wind, the clouds, and the snow -- The fish and the flowers -- The hen, the cat, and the bird -- The boy who wanted the impossible -- The boy who became a Hsao-tsze -- The hunter, the snipe, and the bivalve -- The mule and the lion -- The Fa-Nien-Ts'ing and the Mön-Tien-Sing -- The body that deserted the stomach -- The proud fox and the crab -- A little Chinese rose -- The eagle and the rice birds -- The children and the dog -- The two mountains -- A Chinese prodigal son -- The lion and the mosquitoes -- The thief and the elephant -- The general, the bird, and the ant -- Three girls who went to a boys' school -- The rattan vine and the rose tree -- The melon and the professor.

Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

"Chinese Fables and Folk Stories" by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung is a collection of 37 tales published in 1908. Billed as the first book of Chinese fables printed in English, this compilation emerged from an unexpected collaboration between a Chicago journalist and a Chinese reverend. The work captures ancient stories scattered across classical texts, bringing them to Western readers for the first time. Folklore scholars later recognized it as one of the most reliable collections of Chinese folktales published before 1937. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: New York: American Book Company, 1908

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