Fables et Contes chinois
"Chinese children are made to learn (proverbs and maxims)by heart, and ordinary grown-up chinamen may be almost said tothink in proverbs... Giles, 1892... Giles (he compiled the first exhaustive chinese-English dictionary in 1892) aptly describes the contents of theFrench version of Chinese Fables, a handsome new ebook... The morals are more often implied than spelled out,
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