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"The Fighting Cricket" (simplified Chinese: 促织; traditional Chinese: 促織; pinyin: Cùzhi) is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Set in a society whose emperor has an obsession with fighting crickets, the story follows a boy who metamorphoses into one such cricket to save his father.
Short Chinese literary works, including those falling in the short story and tale genre. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The story can be read as a sardonic attack on traditional Chinese culture and society and a call for a new cultural direction. "Diary of a Madman" is the opening story in Lu Xun's first collection, and has often been referred to as "China's first modern short story". [2]
"The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" (Chinese: 洞庭靈姻傳), better known as "The Story of Liu Yi" (Chinese: 柳毅傳), is a Chinese chuanqi (fantasy) short story from the Tang dynasty, written by Li Chaowei (李朝威) in the second half of the 8th century.
"Xianü" (traditional Chinese: 俠女; simplified Chinese: 侠女; pinyin: Xiá Nǚ; lit. 'Heroic Woman') is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio . The story follows the eponymous swordswoman, who rescues her neighbour from a fox spirit , before bearing him a son and avenging her father's death.
[1]: 230 They are some of the earliest Chinese literature written in the form of short and medium-length stories and have provided valuable inspiration plot-wise and in other ways for fiction and drama in later eras. Many were preserved in the 10th-century anthology, Taiping Guangji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era). [2]
"The Wolf of Zhongshan" (Chinese: 中山狼傳; pinyin: Zhōngshān Láng Zhuàn) is a popular Chinese tale that deals with the ingratitude of a creature after being saved. . The first print of the story is found in the Ming-dynasty Ocean Stories of Past and Present (Chinese: 古今說海; pinyin: Gǔjīn Shuōhǎi) published in 1544.
"Storm in a Teacup" (simplified Chinese: 风波; traditional Chinese: 風波; pinyin: Fēngbō; lit. 'Storm') is a short story by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature. Originally published in September 1920 in the journal New Youth (新青年), it was later included in his first collection of short stories, A Call to Arms (吶喊