Description:
Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of three volumes of stories that were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to BoccaccioÂ's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights.
Brief description: Shuhui Yang is professor of Chinese at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. He is cotranslator of the renowned 3-volume set of vernacular Ming stories by Feng Menglong (1574-1646) known as the Sanyan: Stories Old and New, Stories to Caution the World, and Stories to Awaken the World (University of Washington Press, 2000-2009).
Review Quotes:
"Stories to Caution the World offers the reader plenty to savor. . . . often shrewd and knowing, and never dull, [the translated comments] provide a new element of commentary over and above that built into the stories through the storyteller's manner, and introduce an agreeably unpredictable element that enhances the pleasure of reading Stories to Caution the World."
-- "China Review International"