A Chinese Wonder Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chinese Wonder Book write by Norman Hinsdale Pitman. This book was released on 2020-09-28. A Chinese Wonder Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of fifteen Chinese folk tales.
A Chinese Wonder Book (1919)
A Chinese Wonder Book (1919) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chinese Wonder Book (1919) write by Norman Hinsdale Pitman. This book was released on 2008-06-01. A Chinese Wonder Book (1919) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
My Beijing
My Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Beijing write by Nie Jun. This book was released on 2018. My Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--
A Chinese Wonder Book
A Chinese Wonder Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chinese Wonder Book write by Norman Hinsdale Pitman. This book was released on 1919. A Chinese Wonder Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What we shall eat to-morrow, I haven't the slightest idea!" said Widow Wang to her eldest son, as he started out one morning in search of work. "Oh, the gods will provide. I'll find a few coppers somewhere," replied the boy, trying to speak cheerfully, although in his heart he also had not the slightest idea in which direction to turn. The winter had been a hard one: extreme cold, deep snow, and violent winds. The Wang house had suffered greatly. The roof had fallen in, weighed down by heavy snow. Then a hurricane had blown a wall over, and Ming-li, the son, up all night and exposed to a bitter cold wind, had caught pneumonia. Long days of illness followed, with the spending of extra money for medicine. All their scant savings had soon melted away, and at the shop where Ming-li had been employed his place was filled by another. When at last he arose from his sick-bed he was too weak for hard labour and there seemed to be no work in the neighbouring villages for him to do. Night after night he came home, trying not to be discouraged, but in his heart feeling the deep pangs of sorrow that come to the good son who sees his mother suffering for want of food and clothing. "Bless his good heart!" said the poor widow after he had gone. "No mother ever had a better boy. I hope he is right in saying the gods will provide. It has been getting so much worse these past few weeks that it seems now as if my stomach were as empty as a rich man's brain. Why, even the rats have deserted our cottage, and there's nothing left for poor Tabby, while old Blackfoot is nearly dead from starvation."
A Garden of Marvels
A Garden of Marvels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Garden of Marvels write by Robert Ford Campany. This book was released on 2015-09-30. A Garden of Marvels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people’s encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns in the land of the dead; eerily significant dreams; and uncannily accurate premonitions. The selection of such stories presented here provides an alluring introduction to early medieval Chinese storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted world of thought, culture, and religious belief of that era. Known as zhiguai, or “accounts of anomalies,” they convey a great deal about how people saw the cosmos and their place in it. The tales were circulated because they were entertaining but also because their compilers meant to document the mysterious workings of spirits, the wonders of exotic places, and the nature of the afterlife. A collection of more than two hundred tales, A Garden of Marvels offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to zhiguai writings, particularly those never before translated or adequately researched. This volume will likely find its way to bedside tables as well as into classrooms and libraries, just as collections of zhiguai did in early medieval times.
