The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales / / ed. by Juwen Zhang, Juwen Zhang.
A delightful collection of modern Chinese talesThe Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oddly Modern Fairy Tales ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 b/w illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction: Rediscovering Fairy Tales in China
- PART ONE Love with a Fairy
- 1 ■ The Dragon Daughter
- 2 ■ The Golden Pin
- 3 ■ The Fisherman’s Lover
- 4 ■ The Silkworm
- 5 ■ On the Celestial Riverbank
- 6 ■ The Flute Player
- 7 ■ The Pheasant Feather Cloak
- 8 ■ The Sea Dragon King
- 9 ■ The Celestial Fairy
- 10 ■ The Daughter of the Dragon King of the Sea
- PART TWO Predestined Love
- 11 ■ The Paper Bride
- 12 ■ The Human-Bear’s Death for Love
- 13 ■ The Snake Spirit
- 14 ■ The Garden Snake
- 15 ■ Spouses from Two Worlds
- 16 ■ The Peasant’s Wife
- 17 ■ The Marriage of a Human and a Ghost
- 18 ■ The Ghost Marriage
- 19 ■ Golden Frog
- 20 ■ The Toad Son
- 21 ■ The Chicken Egg
- 22 ■ No Giving Up before Seeing the Yellow River
- 23 ■ The Reward of the Snake
- 24 ■ Everyone Is Content
- PART THREE The Hatred and Love of Siblings
- 25 ■ The Two Brothers
- 26 ■ The Yellow Bag
- 27 ■ The Two Sisters
- 28 ■ The Elder Daughter
- 29 ■ The Three Brothers
- 30 ■ Elder Brother and Younger Brother
- 31 ■ The Melon King
- PART FOUR Other Odd Tales
- 32 ■ The Weird Brothers
- 33 ■ After Replacing the Heart
- 34 ■ The Hairy Girl on the Pine Tree
- 35 ■ The Shedding Winter Plum
- 36 ■ Old Wolf
- 37 ■ Old Wolf’s Wife
- 38 ■ Brother Moon and Sister Sun
- 39 ■ The Ghost Brother
- 40 ■ The One-Legged Child
- 41 ■ The Fairy Cave
- 42 ■ Increasing Fortune and Snatching Fortune
- Bibliographic Sources and Tale Types
- Bibliography
- Biographical Notes on Important Writers and Contributors