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Title: a horribly politically-correct version
Review: This translation goes so far as to change gender in these fables. (For instance the fox that fools the monkey king becomes 'her' in this 'translation'. It totally changes what the fable is delivering, injecting a lame, shallow feminist theme where one never existed before.) For anyone who knows fables and folk tale type works every detail has meaning, and changing a detail as central as gender is like gluing a new appendage to a famous sculpture.Ms. Gibbs has molested these ancient fables. Her 'work' doesn't deserve to be mentioned even as a translation.May the sick academic culture that produces such shameless, pedestrian acts somehow, some way come to an end soon.Pathetic.
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