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Echo of Classics: The Selections from Records of the Taiping Era

The Selections from Records of the Taiping Era (Echo of Classics series, Chinese-English)
Compiled by Li Fang (Song Dynasty) and others, Translated by Zhang Guangqian, Published by Foreign Languages Press, 2001, paper back 525 pages, ISBN 7119028944.

Records of the Taiping Era is China's most famous collection of ancient stories. It contains nearly 7,000 intriguing tales from 475 books dating from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 220 A.D.) to the beginning of the Song Dynasty (978). The whole work consists of 500 Volumes in over 150 categories. The book was completed in the third year of the Taiping Xingguo period (978), hence the name.

Contents

Old Zhang; The Kylin Rider; A Well Digger's Adventure; The Mountain God's Daughter-in-Law; The Ocher River God; Xue Zhao; A Hired Hand's Adventure; A Boat Ride on the Map; Priest Andao and His Two Disciples; The Priest Who Plugs His Ears; Hermit Zhang; One Who Paints Without Brush and Colors; The Old Man at the Inn; A Dandy's Pleasure Trip; The Proprietress at the Wooden Bridge; The Carpenter and His Wooden Cranes; A New Ghost; The Traveler in Liyang County; Zhao Tai; The Courier in a Yellow Jacket; The Pink Sleeve; A Chance Meeting in Limbo; Mr Li; Gentleman A; The Shattered Specter; General Liu; The Lily; The Girl in the Well; The Old Midget; The Fox Vampire; Who is the Fox? The Official's Wife; The Tribal Chief of Juyan; The Kingdom of Golden Elephant; A Mural in the Temple of Chrysanthemum; A Parrot Fights a Mountain Fire; The Turtle and the Mulberry Tree; The Long-beard Kingdom; The Moter Bear; The Hunter and the White Elephant; The White Ape; Mount Raven; The Wrestler; The Stutterer; The Princess' Stolen Treasures; Rope Acrobat; The Corpse on the Coffin; Prince Ning; The Blacksmith's Money; Li Jing the Demigod; A Powerful Sneeze; The Scarred Monk; The Man with a Dark Countenance; Mr Xiao; Ms Wei's Dragon Ride; The Golden Berry; Stories from the Kingdom of Silla; The Pearl; The Blood-Stained Coat; The Two Friends; Red Strand; The Assassin; The Magic Bottle; The Woman's First Mirror and the Bitten Nose; The Muddlehead; A Potential Rapist; An Old Man in the Han Dynasty; The Fox Tail; The Lucky Stones; The Lunar Goddess; The Meditator; The Erudite Gentleman in the Capital; The Tiger at the Yangtze Gorges; The Disciplinarian; The Two Brothers; Love-Knot Inn; The Blushing Cheeks; re-matching the Broken Mirror; The Departed Soul; Mr Shentu's Wife; The Conch Girl; Zhang's Daughter; The Maiden on the Painted Screen; Charcoal Valley; Sea Giants; The Snake on the Shoulder-pole; The Tumor; The Polyps; The Monk in Jiang Prefecture; The Ingenious Carpenter; An Ancient Tomb; Water Painting; Into the Porcelain Pillow; The Southern Bough; A Kingdom in the Ear

Publisher's Note

Foreign Languages Press is dedicated to the editing, translating and publishing of books in foreign languages. Over the past several decades it has published, in English, a great number of China's classics and records as well as literary works from the Qin down to modern times, in the aim to fully display the best part of the Chinese culture and its achievements. These books in the original are famous and authoritative i their respective fields, and their English translations are masterworks produced by notable translators both at home and abroad. Each book is carefully compiled and translated with minute precision. Consequently, the English versions as well as their Chinese originals may both be rated as classics.
It is generally considered that these English translations are not only significant for introducing China to the outside world but also useful reading materials for domestic English learners and translators. For this reason, we have carefully selected some of these books, and will published them successively in Chinese-English bilingual form.

汉英对照经典的回声：太平广记选

汉英对照经典的回声：太平广记选
作者：（宋）李昉 等编 张光前
出版社：外文出版社
出版日期：2001-8-1
ISBN：7119028944
页数：525
包装：平装
开本：小32开

【内容提要】
　　本社专事外文图书的编辑出版，几十年来用英文翻译出版了大量的中国文学作品和文化典籍，上自先秦，下迄现当代，力求全面而准确地反映中国文学及中国文化的基本面貌和灿烂成就。这些英译图书均取自相关领域著名的、权威的作品，英译则出自国内外译界名家。每本图书的编选、翻译地程均极其审慎严肃，精雕细琢，中文作品及相应的英译版本均堪称经典。
我们总总值到，这些英译精品，不单有对外译介的意义，而且对国内英文学习者、爱好者及英译工作者，也是极有价值的读本。为此，作者对这此英译精品做了认真的遴选，编排成汉英对照的形式，陆续推出，以飨读者。

这套“经典的回声”丛书包括：中国古代寓言选，太平广记选，孙子兵法 孙膑兵法，宋明平话选，楚辞选，关汉卿杂剧选，汉魏六朝小说选，长生殿，杜甫诗选，聊斋志异选，唐代传奇选，中国现代名家短篇小说选。

【目录】
张老    麒麟客    阴隐客    三卫    陈袁生    薛肇    冯俊    陈秀卿    茅安道    掩耳道士    张山人    柳城    京西店老人    张和    板桥三    娘子    襄阳老叟    新鬼    黎阳客    赵泰    浮梁张令    华阳李尉    贾偶    李生    士人甲    袁继谦    卢虔    光化寺客    陈仲躬    吕生    僧晏道    田氏子    户部令史妻    居延部落主    岑顺    黄花寺壁    婴鹉救火    永康人    长须国    升平入山人    安南猎者    欧阳纥    振武角抵人    吃人    苏无名    嘉兴绳技

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