TALES OF A
CHINESE
GRANDMOTHER
BY FRANCES CARPENTER
TALES OF A CHINESE GRANDMOTHER
TALES OF A KOREAN GRANDMOTHER
Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
Copyright in Japan, 1973
by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72077514
ISBN 978-1-4629-0289-7
First edition published 1937
by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y.
First Tuttle edition, 1973
Printed in Singapore
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TO MY FATHER
FRANK G. CARPENTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| I | Inside the Bright Red Gate | 1 | |
| II | How Pan Ku Made the World | 14 | |
| III | The Sisters in the Sun | 22 | |
| IV | Gentle Gwan Yin | 29 | |
| V | The God That Lived in the Kitchen | 39 | |
| VI | Guardians of the Gate | 47 | |
| VII | The Painted Eyebrow | 56 | |
| VIII | Ting Lan and the Lamb | 66 | |
| IX | The Daughter of the Dragon King | 72 | |
| X | The Big Feet of the Empress Tu Chin | 81 | |
| XI | The Grateful Fox Fairy | 89 | |
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| XII | Lady with the Horse's Head | 98 | |
| XIII | The King of the Monkeys | 107 | |
| XIV | Two Dutiful Sons | 117 | |
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