Folk Literature
Sort:
Register of Gods
This book traces ancient history and recounts the origins of the Chinese pantheon. It opens with an informal discussion that organizes folk beliefs, s…
Records of Ancient Books
This book takes classical texts as its framework. It opens with a sequential transcription of the annotations to the "River Waters" section in Volume …
The Complete Biography of Jigong
Sky Novel Network
During the Shaoxing era of the Southern Song dynasty, Li Maochun, a benevolent man from Tiantai County in Taizhou, visited Guoqing Temple to pray for …
Words of Divine Allegory
The book is composed of short, self-contained philosophical parables, each chapter telling a small story: a eloquent debater falls silent before a dea…
Tales of Shushan
17K Novel Network
Tales of Shushan is a work of social chronicle made up of several independent yet interconnected short stories. It opens with a peddler's impromptu nu…
Inside and Outside the Capital
People's Literature Publishing House · 1985
This short story collection by Deng Youmei is represented by such celebrated Beijing-flavored works as Na Wu and The Snuff Bottle. The opening story, …
Neoclassical Fables
Qidian
This book retells and reimagines a series of fables in a refined, classical Chinese style, featuring animals and natural images such as the moon, blac…
Baiyangdian
Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2010
Baiyangdian is a collection of short-short stories by the contemporary miniaturist Cai Nan, including "Gathering Lotus," "Reed Water-Sprite," "Watchin…
Ancient Chinese Tales of Gods, Ghosts, and Strange Beings
17K Novel Network
This book is author Yixiao Cangdao's modern vernacular translation and compilation of ancient colloquial tales of gods, ghosts, and strange beings. Ar…
Dark Night Thousand Feathers: A Fantastical Tang Dynasty
Law Press China · 2011
Dark Night Thousand Feathers: A Fantastical Tang Dynasty is a collection of tales of the strange set in the Tang dynasty by Lin Suwei, published by La…
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press · 2016
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths is a classic retelling of Norse mythology in accessible narrative form by the Irish poet, novelist an…
Stan Bolovan
Stan Bolovan is a Romanian folktale first collected by Mite Kremnitz in her 1882 Rumänische Märchen and later included by Andrew Lang in The Violet Fa…
The Story of Hassebu
· 1901
The Story of Hassebu is a tale from The Violet Fairy Book (1901), a fairy-tale collection edited by the British scholar Andrew Lang, originating from …
The Complete Collection of Classic World Jokes
China Textile & Apparel Press · 2011
The Complete Collection of Classic World Jokes was compiled by the freelance writer Hai Xiao and published by China Textile Press in December 2011. Fr…
Soul Departure
Dolphin Books · 2010
Soul Departure is a collection of short stories by Zhang Dachun, comprising eleven pieces: "Soul Departure," "Lion's Head," "The Hidden King of Hangzh…
Aesop's Fables
People's Literature Publishing House · 1981
Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables handed down from ancient Greece. Tradition holds that they were told by Aesop, a slave from the island of Sam…
Random Jottings from the Cottage of Close Scrutiny (Complete Edition with Full Annotation and Translation)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2014
Random Jottings from the Cottage of Close Scrutiny is a collection of classical-language notebook tales written in his later years by Ji Yun (courtesy…
There Is No Doubt About It (It's Quite True!)
There Is No Doubt About It (Danish original: Det er ganske vist; commonly translated into English as There Is No Doubt About It or It's Quite True!, a…
Bowuzhi (with Seven Other Works)
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2012
This volume belongs to the Han-Wei and Six Dynasties portion of the Treasury of Note-Novels Through the Dynasties series from Shanghai Classics Publis…
The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters
People's Literature Publishing House · 2014
The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters (Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan), also known as The Tale of the Golden and Jade Destiny (Jinyu Yuan) and The Storyteller's…