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The Real Tripitaka: And Other Pieces
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by Arthur Waley. 294 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Arthur Waley

Publisher:

   Allen and Unwin

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1952
Subjects:   Hseuan-Tsang,--Ca. 596-664, Tales--China
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The Real Tripitaka: And Other Pieces
Book by Arthur Waley; Allen and Unwin, 1952
Subjects: Hseuan-Tsang--Ca. 596-664, Tales--China
...MONKEY THREE WAYS OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS THE...CHAPTER 1 BIRTH AND EARLY CAREER IN CHINA READERS of the Chinese novel Monkey...the north-west. Conditions in Central China were still very disturbed, and Tripitaka...
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Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China
Book by Zheng Yi, T. P. Sym; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
...Scarlet Memorial Scarlet Memorial Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China ZHENG YI Translated and edited...nien pei. English Scarlet memorial: tales of cannibalism in modern China / Zheng I; translated and edited by...Region--Politics and government. 2. China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966...
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Traditional Chinese Folktales: An Anthology
Book by Yin-Lien C. Chin, Yetta S. Center, Mildred Ross, Lu Wang; North Castle Books, 1996
Subjects: Folklore--China, Tales--China
...1-56324-800-X pbk. : alk. paper 1. Tales-- China. 2. Folklore--China. I. Chin, Yin-lien C II. Center, Yetta...readers of English. We hope that the tales will enrich, entertain, and delight...one of the most prosperous in all of China. It lies along a wide river that delivers...
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Traditional Chinese Folktales: Chung-Kuo Min Chien Ku Shih
Book by Yin-Lien C. Chin, Yetta S. Center, Mildred Ross; M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1989
Subjects: Tales--China
...collection of twelve traditional tales from various parts of China. ISBN 0-87332-507-9 1. Tales- China. 1. Folklore--China. I. Chin, Yin-lien C. II. Center...readers of English. We hope that the tales will enrich, entertain, and delight...
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Tales Arab Women Tell: And the Behavioral Patterns They Portray
Book by Hasan M. El-Shamy; Indiana University Press, 1999
Subjects: Tales--Middle East, Women, Arab--Folklore
TALES ARAB WOMEN TELL TALES ARAB WOMEN TELL and the Behavioral Patterns They Portray...States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tales Arab women tell and the behavioral patterns they portray / collected...
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Career Tales from China
Journal article by Sandra Hagevik; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 63, 2000
Subjects: Environmental health--Research
Career Tales from China. by Sandra Hagevik I have just returned from a three-week vacation in China with a new perspective on career development...recount all my impressions. Seasoned "China hands" warn that first-time visitors are...
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The Emergence of Kaidan-Shu: The Collection of Tales of the Strange and Mysterious in the Edo Period
Journal article by Noriko T. Reider; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 60, 2001
Subjects: Ghost stories--Japan, Horror tales--Japan, Japan--Literature, Japanese literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Supernatural in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Collection of Miscellaneous Strange Tales, ca. 1650s) contains similar stories. (17.) See...REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII The relationship between "Tales of garland" and "Tales of a thriving field," and "Tales of moonlight and rain". Kokugo kokubun CHINESE...
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The Folk-Tales of Burma: An Introduction
Journal article by Kristina Lindell; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 60, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Folk-tales of Burma: An Introduction (Book)--Reviews
...tales (clerical) Short summaries of tales then follow to illustrate the use of the different categories. The summarized tales are all found in full in the main body of the book. In the index at the end of the book there are lists under the headings...cultural comparisons is astonishing because, although all the five continents are mentioned, we only find from Asia Borneo, China, India, Japan, and the Middle East, with Southeast Asia being conspicuously absent. The subtitle of the book is "An Introduction...
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Empire and the Mind of the Child: Sui Sin Far's "Tales of Chinese Children"
Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Children, Children of AIDS patients, Children of Holocaust survivors, Children of abused women, Children of alien laborers, Children of disabled parents, Children of drug addicts, Children of entertainers, Children of gay parents, Children of migrant laborers, Children of military personnel, Children of politicians, Children of prisoners, Children of single parents, Children of the mentally ill, Children of women prisoners, Children of working mothers, Children of working parents, Colonization--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ethnicity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immunization of children, Sui Sin Far--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tales of Chinese Children (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Vaccination of children
...Boy-Girl" are placed next to each other in "Tales of Chinese Children," for they examine...show how this lesson might be "untaught." "Tales of Chinese Children" suggests that if children...and A Chinese Boy-Girl" are included in "Tales of Chinese Children." Some critics have...
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Sing-Chen Lydia Chiang. Collecting the Self Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
Journal article by Rania Huntington; China Review International, Vol. 12, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Collecting the Self Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China (Book)--Book reviews
...Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China is an insightful and erudite study of the three most celebrated zhiguai (tales of the strange) collections of the Qing...Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (Albany: State University of New York...and contemporary critics for his long tales, chuanqi, relating romances between human...of many other types, including short tales of horror and anomaly. As Chiang points...
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1.
Romancing Cathay: The Growing Power of China Looms in a New International Puppet-Theatre Collaboration
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 22, September 2005
Subjects: Cathay: Three Tales of China (Play)--Performances, Cathay: Three Tales of China (Play)--Research, Chong, Ping--Research, Chong, Ping--Works, Puppet theater--Influence, Puppet theater--Performances, Puppet theater--Political aspects, Puppet theaters--Influence, Puppet theaters--Performances, Puppet theaters--Political aspects, Xian, China--Social aspects
...2003, in preparation for Cathay: Three Tales of China, an original puppet-theatre work debuting...world understand China, to propagandize China through the contrast of Chinese past...puppet-driven triptychs, Kwaidan and Obon: Tales of Rain and Moonlight. (After Seattle...Theatre. Sixteen puppeteers (eight from China, eight from the U.S.) will manipulate...
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Travellers' Tales from a Heroic Era
Magazine article by Rebecca Harris; Geographical, Vol. 77, November 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Dead Reckoning: Tales of the Great Explorers 1800--1900 (Collection)--Book reviews
...Janeiro when a whale bursts up from under his boat; Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr and William Lewis Sachtleben cause excitement in China during their cycle around the world in 1890--pedalling a staggering 24,211 kilometres. Although some passages could have been more keenly edited, the choice of material is inspired. The tales cover a vast geographical area from the North Pole to West Africa, from Siberia to Mecca, and are often funny, evocative and...
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Chinese Folk Tales
Magazine article by Susan Livermore; School Arts, Vol. 96, April 1997
Subjects: Arts and children--Curricula, Arts education--Curricula, China--Study and teaching, Folklore--Study and teaching
...studies teacher announced that the next unit of study was to be China, I knew the time was at hand. The goal of her broad based...Literature was included in the form of ancient Chinese folk tales and the novel, The Year of the Panda. Activities included...apply a coat of gesso. After reading several Chinese folk tales, the students chose to illustrate The Cloak of Tiger Skin...Dolch, Edward W. and Marguerite P. Dolch. Stories from Old China. DLM Teaching Resources, 1964. Susan Livermore is an art...
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Chinese Official Tells Tales of State-Enforced Abortion
Magazine article by Tom Carter; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, July 20, 1998
Subjects: Birth control--Political aspects, Human rights--China, Women's rights--China
Chinese official tells tales of state-enforced abortion by Tom...The head of a `planned-birth office in China ordered thousands of sterilizations and...population. Gao smuggled a video out of China that purports to show her Yonghe office...administration to reevaluate U.S. policy toward China. "With the Clinton administration, population...
5.
China and the Quest for Dignity
Magazine article by John Fitzgerald; The National Interest, Spring 1999
Subjects: China--Politics and government, Civil rights--China, Dignity--China, Human rights--China
...in pursuit of human rights. For Wei, however, these heroic tales signified the historical continuity of the political struggle...irrational behavior in one of his asides on the people of China: "The people have great reserves of self-confidence, self...The Water Margin epic is the locus classicus of Chinas many tales of popular rebellion found in the democratic literary canon...discontinuity: The case of Water Margin mythology", Modern China (July 1986). 21 Friedman, "Thoughts on Wei Jingsheng", H-ASIA...
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Tall Tales Sell Cars in China
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 22, 2005
Tall Tales Sell Cars in China. Byline: By Steve Hughes It is a long time since I saw a tall...all of the worlds car makers are desperate to show their wares in China. A few years ago the very idea of any interest in a motor show in...
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Sirens Wail as People of China Fall Silent to Mourn Dead; Wipingaway Tears: Primary School Children in Tianjin, 1, Miles from the Earthquake Zone, Grieve at Morning Assembly Today. Hundreds Died When Their Schools Collapsed and Many More Have Been Orphaned
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 19, 2008
Subjects: Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--China, Elementary school students--Accidents, Elementary school students--Casualties
...the official mourning period, a fresh tremorin south-western China killed three people, injured 1,000 and sent thousandsfleeing...forsurvivors in the rubble was turning gloomy. Yet remarkable survival tales werestill emerging. Two women were rescued today after being...are critical," said Hans Troedsson, WHOs representative to China. No major epidemics or other public health hazards have been...
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Sirens Wail as People of China Fall Silent to Mourn Dead; Wiping Away Tears: Primary School Children in Tianjin, 1, Miles from the Earthquake Zone, Grieve at Morning Assembly Today. Hundreds Died When Their Schools Collapsed and Many More Have Been Orphaned
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 19, 2008
Subjects: Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--China, Elementary school students--Accidents, Elementary school students--Casualties
...the official mourning period, a fresh tremorin south-western China killed three people, injured 1,000 and sent thousandsfleeing...forsurvivors in the rubble was turning gloomy. Yet remarkable survival tales werestill emerging. Two women were rescued today after being...are critical," said Hans Troedsson, WHOs representative to China. No major epidemics or other public health hazards have been...
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Tales of the Southern Seas; Fancy Drinking Tea from an 18th Century Chinese Teapot Salvaged from the Bottom of the Ocean? Katrina Burroughs Is Romanced by Shipwreck Sales
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 16, 2005
Tales of the Southern Seas; Fancy Drinking Tea...forth across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea on the various trading routes between...function was as ballast. However, the export china found a ready market when the ship reached...unplanned detour to the bottom of the South China Sea. There they stayed for hundreds of...
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Mari-Time for Tea; Flash Back Maritime TALES
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 4, 2007
Mari-Time for Tea; Flash Back Maritime TALES. Byline: STEPHEN GUY of the Maritime...in maritime history. Designed to carry China tea quickly and efficiently, the glamorous...clipper Challenge. New ports opening in China to feed the tea trade fuelled the races...tea trade, she is shown off the coast of China. A number of Chinese artists worked in...
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Bunyan, Paul
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUNYAN, PAUL legendary American lumberjack. He was the hero of a series of "tall tales" popular through the timber country from Michigan westward. Bunyan was known for his fantastic strength and gigantic size. He is said to have ruled his gargantuan lumber camp between the winter of the blue snow and the spring that came up from China. His prized possession was Babe the Blue Ox, the distance between whose horns measured 42 ax handles and a plug of tobacco...
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Cinderella
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a life of drudgery by her fairy godmother and eventually marries a handsome prince. The story (dating back to 9th-century China) exists in 500 versions in Europe alone; it was included by both Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers in their collections of tales. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Hersey, John Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERSEY, JOHN RICHARD hur se, 1914 93, American author, b. China, grad. Yale, 1936. Reflecting his experiences as a war correspondent in World War II, many of his writings are concerned with...1987), about fishing. Collections of his short stories include Fling and Other Stories (1990) and his last, Key West Tales (1994). See studies by D. Sanders (1967) and N. L. Huse (1983). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the principal products were the artha, or handbooks on politics and practical life. In the 7th cent. the work of Hsuan-tsang gave much valuable information about India. Arab works on India, notably that of Alberuni of Khiva, began to appear in...
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Folklore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Barbarossa in Germany, the Cid in Spain, Robin Hood in England, Cuchulain in Ireland, Paul Bunyan in the United States, and Yu in China) have been said to reflect the civilization from which they sprang. Many theories have arisen to explain folk tales Max Muller, a philologist, interpreted the legends as linguistic corruptions; Jakob Grimm saw them as corrupted cosmic allegories...
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