The Ch'i-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories

"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