'I mean to keep wagging my tail in the mud. We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Do you think the tortoise would be happier wagging his tail in the mud than having his shell honored?' 'Of course' replied the two nobleman. 9780394739946 Moss Roberts is a professor of East Asian Studies at NYU and the author of works such as, Three Kingdoms and Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies. Holding his pole steady and without looking at them, Chuang Tzu said, 'I hear that Ch'u has a sacred tortoise that has been dead three thousand years, and the king has it enshrined in a cushioned box in the ancestral hall. 'We were hoping you would take on certain affairs of state' they said. The king of Ch'u sent two noblemen to invite Chuang to come before him. The hermit poet Chuang Tzu was angling in the River Pu. Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies - The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library (Paperback). The introduction is by a Chinese novelist who recalls her grandfather, even in the years of the Cultural Revolution, reading and enjoying tales from Pu Songling, the Record of Things Strange from a Makeshift Studio. Many are moral tales, proverbs and sayings of the philosophers. A lovely Folio book, consisting of usually brief stories, sometimes a paragraph or epigram, concerning ghosts, justice served, ironic outcomes, and imaginings of the natural world.
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