Selection of Ancient Chinese Curious Short Stories

About the Book

The Chinese inherit countless essays and narratives that record every feature of their daily lives. Some of these essays have been embellished as fancy stories. Some are just jottings of incidents. Curiosity is not the only criterion of selection, thoughtfulness and historicity are considered too.

PEACH STEALER is a true story. The teller had actually seen the performance. Even in the nineteenth century this street magic show was still performed in India and had drawn attention from England. The earliest record of this show was in the year 1528. The performers came from Shenxi. How the magicians did it is unknown. But, if we compare some stories such as THAUMATURGY, SORCERY, JU- YOU TRAUMA and LAMA PRIEST, we might get some ideas of that.

Other stories such as DWARF, KWON FU, VENTRILOQUISM, FLOOD and water fight are probably true. A FOREIGN MONK and those dream stories are weird. But they can really enrich our imaginations. Do you think all realities are within the frame of spacetime? Break the barrier, you will see these stories really have something in common with the ideas from modern science.

About the Author

T. Bill Chow is a fellow Chinese of nobody.

He came into being in the middle 40's of twentieth century, in a remote village of Southern China.

He fled his beloved country in the era while the country was harshly toasted by its Sun.

He came a long way to Canada, which is the land he chose to live the rest of his life.

He spends his entire life in persistency of his noble self, which is the value he firmly holds for his humanity. He came through all the way of failure; Then, all of a sudden, he found himself at the land of glory, of self-perfection.

Now, he is trying to gain insight into I Ching, and that is the final tach to the project of his life.