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By Harold Acton (trans), Cyril Birch (trans), Kung Shang-Jen, Chen Shih-hsiang (trans) and Judith T. Zeitlin (introduced by)

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9781590178768 | New York Review of Books, July 21, 2015, cover price $17.95

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9780253215277 | 2 edition (Indiana Univ Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $26.00

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Product Description: Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780231121682 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English.

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9780231121699 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English.

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Collects stories from the Chinese tradition relating the creation of the earth, and the place of ghosts, rain-makers, and magicians in China's storytelling tradition. (view table of contents)
By Cyril Birch and Rosamund Fowler (illustrator)

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9780192750785 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Collects stories from the Chinese tradition relating the creation of the earth, and the place of ghosts, rain-makers, and magicians in China's storytelling tradition.

Collects stories from the Chinese tradition relating the creation of the earth, and the place of ghosts, rain-makers, and magicians in China's storytelling tradition.

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9781417654949 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $22.05 | About this edition: Collects stories from the Chinese tradition relating the creation of the earth, and the place of ghosts, rain-makers, and magicians in China's storytelling tradition.

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Product Description: This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. There are folk-tales here, too: about ghosts and rain-makers, poor students and magicians, and the man who was nearly made into fishpaste...read more

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9780192741523 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gathers legends about how the Earth and the heavens were created and tales about ghosts, rain-makers, students, magicians, and demons

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9780785724247 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.55 | About this edition: This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns.

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Product Description: Ming drama represents the classical Chinese theater at its most mature and exquisite. Between 1368 and 1644, more than four hundred playwrights produced over l,500 plays, ranging from one-act skits to massive, operatic works with fifty scenes or more...read more

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9780231102636 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Ming drama represents the classical Chinese theater at its most mature and exquisite.

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Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural
By Cyril Birch (editor)

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9780802150387 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural
9789990039269 | Pub Group West, June 1, 1987, cover price $0.02

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Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural
By Cyril Birch (editor) and Donald Keene (editor)

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9780802150905 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural

Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural
By Cyril Birch (compiler)

Hardcover:

9780394476421 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1972, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural

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