Selected Chinese Short Stories of the Tang and Song Dynasties

Short stories were a literary form as early as the Tang dynasty (AD618-907) and were an important developmental stage in classical Chinese fiction. These numerous stories covered a wide variety of subjects from love stories to ghosts and spirits, supernatural events and adventures. They exercised an important influence on the writing of later drama through their moving portrayal of events and people and their great artistic merit. This collection contains The Dragon King?s Daughter, Story of A Singsong Girl, The Story of Yingying and another 11 stories of the Tang dynasty, and eight stories of the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), including The Haunting Legend of the Grand Canal and The Story of Li Shishi, etc. Each story is preceded by a synopsis and a brief introduction.