Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China in Legend and Story
Hese stories come from the heart of a Chinese city. The printed page cannot create memories of living faces, gestures, turns of voice and movements of the hand, nor their background, here the corner of a house or temple court, there a stretch of dusty road or the distant skyline lifted clear against the heavens. There exists no achromatic medium through which to show the men who told the tales or lived them out before the writer's eyes. Nor, failing such' a magic lens, is it possible to borrow the cinematographic presentation with which the Chinese raconteur makes his hearers see both men and things as in a moving picture. This being so, the stories have been told as simply as possible, in the hope that their original interest may not have been wholly lost in the telling.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
