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...stories was about a fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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