Stories from a Ming Collection
Subtitle: The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
Contributors: Cyril Birch (Translator)
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: January 31, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780802150318
Subjects: Short stories; Translations into English; Short Stories (Anthologies); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Social life and customs; Fiction / Literary; China; Fiction; Short stories, Chinese
First sentence: THE twelfth and thirteenth centuries were the period of the Southern Sung dynasty when the Chinese court, driven south across the Yangtze by the Chin Tartars, established a new capital at Lin-an (present-day Hangchow).