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Title: I wouldn't have bought it in the store...
Review: ...but I am ever grateful that a friend loaned it to me. The worlds of Chinese fairy tales are radically different from the Brothers Grimm that most of us eurocentrics grew up with, and that's part of the appeal. Events and circumstances that seem so oddly improbable to us are received and accepted as "matters of fact" by the characters in this book. It has (at least) one thing in common with reading Shakespeare: when you pick up the book, either for the first time or after an extended absence, you'll probably have to read the first few pages more than once to reorient your language receptors. Highly recommended!
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