The Strange Adventure of Nobleman Feng Huang - "Chinese Stories Collection"

Author: (French) Great by Great, translated by Liu Yunhong
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Publishing Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Great possesses a remarkable talent for weaving stories and imagining, and The Adventures of the Nobleman Feng Huang—A Collection of Chinese Stories is a product of his skillfully weaving imagination from Eastern materials. The "Chinese stories" he depicts in this book are merely fictional legends embedded within a "Chinese framework." Great's Chinese stories are incredibly captivating—even contemporary readers, flipping through this work from two centuries ago, listening to the tales of the nobleman Feng Huang's nightly ramblings, accompanied by his endless adventures, will feel as if they are living in the moment, as if they are traveling the world alongside the book's protagonists. This is a fictional novel and also part of the "Getting Closer to China" cultural translation series edited by Qian Linsen. Modeled after One Thousand and One Nights and The Decameron, the book is set in the imagined China of the author, with the soul reincarnation of the nobleman Feng Huang as its thread. It presents readers with stories told by Feng Huang to the new Chinese empress every night (over forty-six nights), guiding them on a journey through various Eastern countries, showcasing the cultural landscapes of each nation, presenting a series of exotic landscapes, and pioneering the way for French writers to depict and imagine China.