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Lazy dragon : Chinese stories from the Ming Dynasty / translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang ; edited by Geremie Barmé.
LIBRA PL2658.E8 L3 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Chinese--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Chinese.
- Chinese fiction--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Translations into English.
- Chinese fiction.
- Chinese fiction--Ming dynasty.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hongkong : Joint Pub. Co., 1981.
- Contents:
- Fifteen strings of cash
- The strange adventures of Yang Balao
- The ghost came thrice
- The Oil vendor and the courtesan
- A just man avenged
- The beggar chief's daughter
- The old gardener
- The courtesan's jewel box
- The tangerines and the tortoise shell
- Lazy dragon.
- Notes:
- Translation of short stories originally selected from San yan; Er pai, collections of tales respectively by Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu.
- "This selection of stories is based on The courtesan's jewel box: Chinese stories of the xth-xviith centuries"--P. xx.
- Bibliography: pages [303]-304.
- ISBN:
- 9620401360 :
- OCLC:
- 9155340
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