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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.13008
EAN: 9780394739946
ISBN: 0394739949
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: July 12, 1980
Publisher: Pantheon
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: July 12, 1980
Studio: Pantheon
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Editorial Review:
This fresh and elegant translation of 100 tales from 25 centuries of Chinese literature opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Illustrated with woodcuts.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - There Are Better Collections
As a devotee of Chinese folkore and literature I was disappointed by this collection. The retellings were wooden and lacked the graceful flow that all well told fairy & folk tales should possess. Many of the stories are taken from Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio." Moreover children and parents may find some of the stories in this collection both morbid and cruel and not of a "cuddly" nature. I would encourage both adults and children to look elsewhere for a better, more ... Read More
Rating:  - Enjoyable and mysterious
Don't let the title's 'Fairy Tales' give you the wrong expectation. A few stories here (such as "Girl in Green") do resemble Western fairy tales, with supernatural beings, animal transformations, and unknowing mortals enchanted by these beings or enmeshed in their mysterious affairs.
Other stories (including "The Tiger Behind the Fox") would be at home among Aesop's fables - stories acted out by anthropomorphized animals, showing some moral or insight into human nature. Yet others (like ... Read More
Rating:  - PG-13
I just got this book and I'm writing on my experience last night, when I began reading a story to my daughter. In the course of three pages, a woman was cut up "inch by inch starting at the feet"; a man's head was cut off; in hell he was tortured with "molten bronze, the iron rod, pounding, grinding, the fire pit, the boiling cauldron, the hill of knives, the forest of swords"; as further punishment he was reborn as female; as a child, she fell into a fire and could get "no relief from the pain"; later ... Read More
Rating: - unique and special
I just had to come in here and pen this to counterbalance the so-and-so who assigned this opus but a single star. The stories are often short, but that should not detract from them, nor should the simplicity of some. They are, after all, CHINESE. The culture is different; the values are different; the symbology is different. I found the collection delightfully refreshing, and I particularly found some of the pieces extremely funny. This book is a definite keeper that the reader will remember for some time ... Read More
Rating: - pretty good
I actually thought this book was pretty good. Though, the illustrations are very simple. The stories are short and simple, but they are fun to read. I liked it.
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