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FAMOUS CHINESE SHORT STORIES PART IIFAMOUS CHINESE SHORT STORIES PART IIFAMOUS CHINESE SHORT STORIES PART IIFAMOUS CHINESE SHORT STORIES PART II

Retold by Ling Yutang (1959)Retold by Ling Yutang (1959)Retold by Ling Yutang (1959)Retold by Ling Yutang (1959)


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FAMOUS CHINESE SHORT STORIESRetold by LIN YUTANG (1959)LIN YUTANG (1959)LIN YUTANG (1959)LIN YUTANG (1959)

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PASSION OR THPASSION OR THPASSION OR THPASSION OR THE WESTERN ROOME WESTERN ROOME WESTERN ROOME WESTERN ROOM

The most celebrated love story in Chinese literature was written by the famous poet Yuen Chen. He wrote it down as a story which has

happened to someone else, but it was clearly autobiographical. The dates, the characters and the events were too real and coincided too well

with his own, and the writers personal emotion was too deeply felt for it to be anything but autobiographical account of his own romance.The thin disguise of the name Chang which he gave to the lover in the story did not deceive his friends, and the extraordinary vivid story

aroused a great deal of talk and curiosity. The author, who had become one of the two foremost poets of his day, was embarrassed, but he

could not suppress the story of his fee ling about it. And always, the word Oriole (Inging), which was the girls name, slipped into his verse,

when it was not disguised as Shuangwen, referring to the duplicated sounds in that name. The girl was his first love, bit there were special

reasons for his remembering it. ( Ling YutangLing YutangLing YutangLing Yutang)


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CHIENNIANGCHIENNIANGCHIENNIANGCHIENNIANG

From Taiping Kwkangchi, No.358, written by Chen Hsuanyu (766-775). This popular story was dramatized by a great

Yuan playwright, Cheng Teh-hwei. The drama version follows the general outline. A later, expanded version by Chu Yu

in Chienteng Hsinhwa brings in a complication. In this version, there were two sisters, the elder on being engaged to the

lover. The lover returned to find his fiancee already dead. The ghost of the dead sister borrowed the body of the younger

sister, making it appear that the latter was in love with him, and eloped to live with him for a period. The younger sister,

deprived from her soul, lay sick in bed. Later the elder sisters soul returned to the younger sister, who woke up, not

recognizing the lover, but later married him, according to the departed elder sisters wish. This expanded version is also

found in Pain-an ChingchiI, No.23. I prefer the simple first version.

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MADAME D.MADAME D.MADAME D.MADAME D.

This was taken from Chingchunlu, by Lien Pu of Sung Dynasty, who said he personally knew the story when

he was a student at the university in the capital. I have filled in the details about the students movement for

recovery of national territory, which are well-known facts in history, based on such works as Chou Mis

Kweihsin Tasachih.

(Ling Yuytang)


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JEALOUSYJEALOUSYJEALOUSYJEALOUSY

From the Chinpen Tungshu Shiaoshuo, Sung Dynasty, author unknown. This is probably the type of horror

story that the teashop audience enjoyed. The story is so built that, toward the end, not one person, but a whole

group of persons connected with the story are revealed one by one as ghosts, to create a climax of horror. The

same collection has another ghost story in which the same technique of gradually revealing suspicion is used.

Jealousy was expanded and incorporated in a later Ming collection, Chingshih Tungyen. I have omitted the

ending where a Taoist priest is called to exorcise the spirits.

(Ling Yutang)(Ling Yutang)(Ling Yutang)(Ling Yutang)


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