The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales
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The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales

About this book

A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales

The 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 twentieth century under the pseudonyms Lin Lan and Lady Lin Lan—previously unknown in the West, and now acclaimed as the Brothers Grimm of China.

The birth of the tales began in 1924, when one author, Li Xiaofeng, published a set of literary stories under the Lin Lan pen name, an alias that would eventually be shared by an editorial team. Together, this group gathered fairy tales (tonghua) from rural regions across China. Combining traditional oral Chinese narratives with elements from the West, the selections in this collection represent different themes and genres—from folk legends to comic tales. Characters fall for fairies, experience predestined love, and have love/hate relationships with siblings. Garden snails and snakes transform into cooking girls, and dragon daughters construct houses. An introduction offers historical and social context for understanding the role that the Lin Lan stories played in modern China. Appendixes include information on tale types and biographies of the writers and contributors.

The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales is a captivating testament to the power of storytelling.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780691225067
Print ISBN
9780691214412
Subtopic
Asian Literary Collections

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Foreword by Jack Zipes
  9. Introduction: Rediscovering Fairy Tales in China
  10. Part One. Love with a Fairy
  11. Part Two. Predestined Love
  12. Part Three. The Hatred and Love of Siblings
  13. Part Four. Other Odd Tales
  14. Bibliographic Sources and Tale Types
  15. Bibliography
  16. Biographical Notes on Important Writers and Contributors

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