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Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang, Paperback / softback Book

Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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First published in 1960. Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth.

These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist.

Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translated before.

Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature.

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