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A collection of Chinese tales includes nine stories based on authentic sources, including three-hundred-year-old novels, actual historical figures and events, and Chinese opera
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"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
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