THE PHANTOM VESSEL
September 30, 2019
Once a ship loaded with pleasure-seekers was sailing from North China to Shanghai. High winds and stormy weather had delayed…
THE TWO JUGGLERS
September 30, 2019
One beautiful spring day two men strolled into the public square of a well-known Chinese city. They were plainly dressed…
THE PRINCESS KWAN-YIN
September 30, 2019
Once upon a time in China there lived a certain king who had three daughters. The fairest and best of…
THE NODDING TIGER
September 30, 2019
Just outside the walls of a Chinese city there lived a young woodcutter named T’ang and his old mother, a…
THE MAD GOOSE AND THE TIGER FOREST
September 30, 2019
Hu-lin was a little slave girl. She had been sold by her father when she was scarcely more than a…
BAMBOO AND THE TURTLE
September 30, 2019
A party of visitors had been seeing the sights at Hsi Ling. They had just passed down the Holy Way…
THE TALKING FISH
September 30, 2019
Long, long before your great-grandfather was born there lived in the village of Everlasting Happiness two men called Li and…
THE WOLF AND THE FOX
September 29, 2019
A WOLF, once upon a time, caught a fox. It happened one day that they were both going through the…
THE FAIR CATHERINE AND PIF-PAF POLTRIE
September 29, 2019
GOOD day, Father Hollenthe. How do you do?” “Very well, I thank you, Pif-paf Poltrie.” “May I marry your daughter?” “Oh,…
THE STRAW THE COAL AND THE BEAN
September 29, 2019
ALL alone, in a quiet little village, lived a poor old woman. One day she had a dish of beans which…