TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lin Lan
AU  - Zhang,Juwen
TI  - The dragon daughter and other Lin Lan fairy tales
T2  - Oddly modern fairy tales
SN  - 9780691214412
AV  - GR335 .L5513 2022
U1  - 398.20951 23/eng/20211025
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Lin Lan
KW  - Children's stories, Chinese
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fairy tales
KW  - China
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Humorous stories, Chinese
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "Although the influence of the Brothers Grimm on folklore in virtually every country in the West has been widely studied, a similar development in the early part of twentieth-century China is virtually unknown. This book collects and translates more than 40 tales selected from the "Lin Lan" series, published in China from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. The pseudonym "Lin Lan" was created in 1924, when a group of three literary stories about the legendary Xu Wenchang (1521-1593), himself the author of many literary works still popular today, were published in a morning newspaper. The success of this first attempt encouraged the creators to publish more folk tales and fairy tales, which ultimately played a major role in the development of modern folk literature in China. The series, written and developed by a Shanghai publisher under the pen name Lin Lan, was divided into three subgenres-minjian chuanshuo (folk legends/tales), minjian tonghua (folk fairy tales), and minjian qushi (comic folk tales)-published in 43 volumes containing nearly one thousand tales in all. The tales were collected the tales from oral storytellers throughout China in response to a call from the publisher, and combined elements of European fairy-tale literature with traditional Chinese narratives"--
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