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Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect
A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years…
29 - The Silent Princess
In The Olive Fairy Book
Step into a world of enchantment with The Olive Fairy Book, a captivating collection of fairy tales curated by Andrew Lang. First published …
00 - Preface
In The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…
US China Relations
University of Oxford Podcasts
Letter from China
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
Musings of a Chinese Mystic
If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to …
A CHINAMAN ON OXFORD
In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale
In Hieroglyphic Tales
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…
Told in China, by Elizabeth Flint Wade
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 01 October 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Set of China
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume 5 invites listeners to explore a rich tapestry of American wit through a curated collection of 43 short…
Chinese
In Little Minnie, and Other Stories
This is a little book of very short stories or vignettes, about children and intended for children. Many of the stories reference the includ…
The Chinese Nightingale
In The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Coming Down from Chung-nan by Li Po
In Gems of Chinese Verse
Translations of various Chinese poets' work. - Summary by KevinS
22 - At the Bookstall
In Not That It Matters
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…
The Children of Lir
In Celtic Wonder-tales
Stories of might and main, romance and tragedy among the Tuatha DeDanaan with Brigit, Lir, Manannaun, Ethaun and others. Great ancient gods …
08 - The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin
In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 2)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…
The New Word
In Echoes of the War
Echoes of the War presents a poignant collection of short stories that delve into the lives of London’s civilians during the First World War…
The Unjust Sentence (Chinese)
In Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
28 - HEAVY WORK
In The Sunny Side
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…
The Chinago
In When God Laughs, and Other Stories
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …