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LostBoyTootles
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(12/30/04 7:29 pm)
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The Chinese Cinderella
Does anyone know of a website where I can read the original Chinese Cinderella? I've searched for it and found books, but I can't find it online. Thanks!
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midori
snyder
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(1/2/05 12:50 pm)
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Re: The Chinese Cinderella
Hey Tootles,
Hmmm..it's been hard searching the net for "Yeh-Shen"
which is the Chinese name for Cinderella...but I did run across
a site that might provide you with a contact who can give you more
information. It's the "Cinderella Project" out of the
University of Mississippi. Try it here www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html
I've put a call into my kid who is finishing his degree in Chinese...he might have more...of course, when you ask for the"original" Chinese cinderella, I am assuming you still mean a translated version? <g>
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midori
snyder
Registered User
(1/2/05 1:24 pm)
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Re: The Chinese Cinderella
I found one more reference site that you might find useful for titles...
It's a bookstore featuring Asian Folktale...at least you can peruse some titles...not all of them are YA, some are scholarly...
www.mathesonbooks.com/abeaamy.htm
Of course the rub is how to get to the books...do have access to a University?
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(1/2/05 2:09 pm)
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Link
This is a bibliography but it does give summaries too. There are some translated-from-the-Chinese versions under the sub-heading "Asian Cinderellas":
www.lib.rochester.edu/cam...r/cin3.htm
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Black Sheep
Registered User
(1/2/05 2:14 pm)
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And there's a longish summary of the well known retelling here:
www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/resource-china.htm
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LostBoyTootles
Registered User
(1/2/05 8:03 pm)
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Thanks so much for all the links! I've seen a few of those pages before and turned up empty-handed. I found the last link as well, but I wasn't sure how accurate it was. Thanks again!
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
arne97
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(1/3/05 6:38 am)
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The UNC link ( http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/resource-china.htm) provides a synopsis.
Of interest is the Spring festival which Cinderella attended. It appears to have functioned as a place for males and females to meet. I wonder if this is not the same as the European "Beltane" where it was expected that participants would have sex during the night.
This would explain the loss of clothing as well as Cinderella leaving to escape being recognized in the light of day.
I've heard the slipper referred to as a metaphor for the vagina. Yeh-Shen's slipper is the smallest .
Are there Native American versions?
Arne
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Heidi Anne Heiner
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(1/3/05 10:05 am)
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If you are reading much about the Chinese Cinderella, you should add Donna Jo Napoli's latest novel, Bound, to your reading list.
Heidi
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LostBoyTootles
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(1/3/05 11:50 am)
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"Bound" is actually what got me interested in reading the Chinese Cinderella.
Now I'm not sure, since at SurLaLune it's marked as being Indian, but I always thought this version of the tale was the Native American version: surlalunefairytales.com/c...adian.html
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
LostBoyTootles
Registered User
(1/26/05 5:35 pm)
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Egyption Cinderella
Sorry to double-post.
Does anyone know how accurate this version of the Egyptian Cinderella
is? library.thinkquest.org/J0...?tqskip1=1
Thanks!
Tootles~~If I can't be anything important, would you like to see me do a trick? |
Black Sheep
Registered User
(1/27/05 9:58 am)
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Re: Egyption Cinderella
The original recorded text for an Egyptian Cinderella is the story of Rhodopis which the Roman author Strabo wrote as a history (i.e. a true story or legend).
There's a summary under African etc Cinderellas at the Rochester library site which I posted before.
Or read the original Latin version... :)
Edit: Ooops... original Greek (note to self, must drink more coffee).
Edited by: Black Sheep at: 1/27/05 10:48 am
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