The Ch'i-lin Purse.A Collection Of Ancient Chinese Stories

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 127 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "A professional storyteller, Fang uses the tales she heard, read, and loved as a child in Shanghai. Now she has written down nine of those stories whose origins are legends, novels, and operas hundreds of years old. Dramatic, humorous, and touching by turns, the stories often concern difficulties overcome by characters who are kind or clever, or both...A fine, flavorful collection."-Starred/Booklist

ISBN: 9780374312411