Folk Tales (English Edition): Classic Chinese Stories of the White Snake, Mulan, the Lotus Lantern & More

This book brings together Chinese folk tales that everyone in China grows up hearing—the White Snake who loves a man, Mulan who takes her father’s place in the army, the Lotus Lantern that lights the way to a mother’s rescue, and more. Each story is short, illustrated in colour, and retold in clear English, so you can read one in a few minutes and still remember it later. It is made for readers outside China who want to know the stories Chinese people tell about love, courage, family, and doing the right thing. If you want to meet the folk tales that shaped Chinese imagination—rather than study an academic collection of folklore or read a children’s picture book with no depth—this is it.