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The story is a Chinese version of the popular children's fable "Little Red Riding Hood" as retold by Young.Contrary to the original fable, in which there is only one child (Little Red Riding Hood) who interacts with the nemesis of the story (the wolf), Lon Po Po (Mandarin for "wolf [maternal] grandmother") has three children, and the story is told from their perspective.
The Runaway Wok is a children's picture book written by Ying Chang Compestine and illustrated by Sebastia Serra. [1] Published in 2011 by Dutton Children's Books, the story follows a boy named Ming and his adventures with a magical talking wok who grants wishes. [2][3] The story portrays the rich family as evil and the poor family as heroic.
United States. ISBN. 978-0-698-11357-2. OCLC. 50015354. The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann. The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, Ten Brothers.
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains (Chinese: 愚公移山; pinyin: Yúgōng Yíshān) is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower. [1] The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the Liezi, a Daoist text of the 4th century BC, [2] and was retold in the Garden of Stories by the Confucian scholar ...
United States. Chinese Fables and Folk Stories, a compilation of 37 tales, was billed as the first book of Chinese fables ever printed in English when it was published by American Book Company in 1908. [1][2] The co-authors were Mary Hayes Davis and Chow Leung. [1] Widely reprinted today and also translated into French, [3] Chinese Fables and ...
Lady Meng Jiang. Lady Meng Jiang or Meng Jiang Nü (Chinese: 孟姜女; pinyin: Mèng Jiāng Nǚ) is a Chinese tale with many variations. Later versions are set in the Qin dynasty, when Lady Meng Jiang's husband was pressed into service by imperial officials and sent as corvee labor to build the Great Wall of China. Lady Meng Jiang heard ...
Qingtong Kuihua. Bronze and Sunflower (Chinese: 青铜葵花) is a Chinese children's novel written by Cao Wenxuan and was first published in 2005. [1] The novel is set in the Cultural Revolution. It is a story of friendship between Bronze, a mute peasant boy, and Sunflower, the young daughter of an artist sent to a May Seventh Cadre School.
The story is titled "Planting a Pear-tree" in Giles' 1880 publication; [4] Giles later retitled it "The Wonderful Pear Tree" in his 1911 anthology Chinese Fairy Tales which features eight Liaozhai stories including "The Painted Skin" and "Stealing Peaches". [5] Subsequent translators have titled the story "Growing Pears" [6] and "Sowing Pears ...