1st Edition
Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang
280 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1960. Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist. Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translated before. Arthur... Read more
Chapter 1 The Swallow and the Sparrow; Chapter 2 Wu Tzu-Hsü; Chapter 3 The Crown Prince; Chapter 4 The Story of Catch-Tiger; Chapter 5 The Story of Hui-Yüan; Chapter 6 The Wizard Yeh Ching-Neng; Chapter 7 Meng Chiang-Nü; Chapter 8 The World of the Dead; Chapter 9 Marriage Songs; Chapter 10 The Buddhist Pieces; Chapter 11 Mu-Lien Rescues his Mother;
Biography
Arthur Waley
