Pitman. Chinese Fairy Stories

Today's free book is Chinese Fairy Stories by Norman Hinsdale Pitman. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet Archive and Hathi Trust.

Yow-To's First Lesson
The Boy who Slept
The Boy and the Porridge
The Gods Know
Lo-Sun, The Blind Boy
Sing Li's Fortune
Fairy Old Boy and the Tiger
Yu-Kong and the Demon
The Boy who Became Emperor
The Ashes of Deceit
The Bride of the Dragon King

Brown. Chinese Nights Entertainments

Today's free book is Chinese Nights Entertainments: Stories of Old China by Brian Brown. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.

The Wicked Empress
The Origin of Tea
The Merchant's Son
The Stone from Heaven
The Thunder God
Yang Sung's Dream
The Wood Cutter
The Painted Cat
The Fisherman
The Taoist's Description of Heaven
The Taoist Explains Love
Story of Effort and Destiny
The Illness of Chi Liang
The Intelligence of Animals
A Bad Memory
The Dreams of Kan Yin
The Wood Gatherer
The Journey of Life
On Evolution
Man and the Universe
Dreams
A Taoist Charlatan
The Taoist Keeper
The Donkey's Revenge
Han Hsiu - Hero
The Wild Goose and the Sparrow
The Country of Gentlemen
Contentment in Humbleness
The Monkey that Became King
The Taoist's Garden
The Flower Nymphs

Fielde. Chinese Fairy Tales

Today's free book is Chinese Fairy Tales: Forty Stories Told by Almond-Eyed Folk by Adele Marion Fielde. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust and Google Books.

The Strayed Arrow
The Five Queer Brothers
The Three Talismans
The Origin of Ants
The Mistake of the Apes
The Moon-Cake
The Fool of the Family
A Fool Who Tried to Be Like his Brother-in-Law
A Dreadful Boar
The Two Melons

The Fairy Serpent
What the Birds Said
The Man in a Shell
The Young Head of the Family
Prospect and Retrospect
A Foreordained Match
Marrying a Simpleton
Baling with a Sieve
The Widow and the Magistrate
A Lawyer as Debtor

The Singing Prisoner
Self-Convicted
The Ladle that Fell from the Moon
A Wife's Vengeance
Stolen Garlic
Two Frugal Men
The Most Frugal of Men
Misapplied Wit
Similar Diseases
A Dream Inspired

A Fortuitous Application
Jean Valjean in Cathay
A Polite Idiosyncrasy
Verified Predictions
The Three Sworn Brothers
The Peasant-Girl's Prisoner
Crabs in Plenty
False Economy
The Thriftless Wife
A Wife with Two Husbands

Macgowan. Chinese Folklore

Today's free book is Chinese Folklore by J. Macgowan. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust and Internet Archive.

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I. — A Chapter on Fairies
II. — The Infamous Chow Sin and the Beautiful T'a Ki
III. — The Fairy and the Pear Seller
IV. — The Love Adventures of the Fox Fairy, Prince Hu
V. — Yu Kong the Athlete
VI. — Li, the Man with the Iron Staff
VII. — Wong Sing; or, How the Fortunes of a Royal Family were restored by a Fairy
VIII.— The Stirring Adventures of the Scholar Wang
IX. — The Mysterious Peach
X. — The Strange Adventures of the Scholar Siu
XI. — The Romantic Story of the Phoenix Fairy
XII. — Mr. Tang, the Filial Son
XIII. — Soat-Lip and the Youthful Fairy
XIV. — The King of the Nine Mountains
XV. — The Fairy Scholar
XVI.— Phoenix, the Beautiful Fox Fairy
XVII. — The Scholar Hai, and the Fairy Songster, Lady Kwey
XVIII. — Mr. Wang and the Taoist Abbott
XIX. — The King of the Snakes
XX. — How an Expectant Prime Minister was Cured of his Ambition by the Ingenious Device
of a Fairy

Macgowan published another book which is available at Project Gutenberg: Chinese Folklore Tales, but pages were missing from the book, and I have not been able to find another scan of the book to supplement the missing pages. If you are curious, though, here are the titles of the stories in that book (not all of which are complete): I. The Widow Ho Ii. Kwang-jui and the God of the River Iii. The Beautiful Daughter of Liu-kung Iv. The Fairy Bonze V. The Mysterious Buddhist Robe Vi. The Vengeance of the Goddess Vii. "the Wonderful Man" Viii. The God of the City Ix. The Tragedy of the Yin Family X. Sam-chung and the Water Demon Xi. The Reward of a Benevolent Life

Lee. Chinese Tales Told in California

Today's free book is The Golden Mountain: Chinese Tales Told in California as collected by Jon Lee. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust.

I - GHOST STORIES

(1) The shadow on the wall
(2) A small piece of grass
(3) The haunted house
(4) The blue light
(5) The sound of the slippers
(6) The mysterious house
(7) The monk who died
(8) A dead woman comes to life again
(9) The daughter returns
(10) The ghost in the coffin
(11) The shadow and the earth gods
(12) A corpse takes a wife
(13) The magic snake-wife
(14) The ghost wife
(15) The ghost wife
(16) The ghost wife
(17) The painted skin
(18) The phantom wife
(19) The three travelers
(20) The marriage festival of the ghosts
(21) The coffin that stood in the west
(21a) The corpse, the blood drinker

II - FOLK TALES 

1. Ogre Stories 
(22) The man-eating snake
(23) The snake with a man's head
(24) Long fingernails
(25) The woman with the long tongue
(26) The cannibal demon
(27) The phantom snake
(28) The priest and the phantom spirit
(29) The man who was transformed into a wild
being

2. Animal Stories
(30) The hunter and the snake
(31) How the cat and the tiger came into
existence
(32) The peacock and the crab
(33) How a daughter-in-law became a monkey
(34) Why the cow can no longer speak
(35) Why dogs and cats don't like each other Version I
(36) Why dogs and cats don't like each other Version II
(37) Why certain fish have sand in their
eyes
(38) Why mice and rats are timid
(39) Why the village gods are never housed
(40) How the term "drinking vinegar" came to
mean that one is jealous 6
(41) Why white mice mean good luck
(42) The snake who could not enter heaven

3. Fairy Tales
(43) The magic melon
(44) The magic picture
(45) The thousand league horse
(46) The precious tokens
(47) The miracle bead
(48) The long lost mother
(49) The precious cups
(50) The magic vessel
(51) How money fell from the sky
(52) The three brothers who came from heaven
(53) How the kingdom of hell recovered its
inhabitants
(54) Seven days in the mountain, several
thousand years in the world

4. Human Tales 
(55) The cunning murderer
(56) The bridge-builder
(57) The young fighter
(58) Shee Yan Quai
(59) The rich man and the robber
(60) The son who liked to gamble
(61) The man who loved jewels
(62) The girl with the scar
(63) The old beggar
(64) The ugly girl
(65) The faithful son

III - HUMOROUS TALES

(66) The gambler with the miraculous nose
(67) The teacher who had only one pair of
pants
(68) The three sons-in-law
(69) The eel that wore a vest
(70) The loudest drum in the world

James. A Book of Chinese Fairy Tales

Today's free book is The Jeweled Sea; A Book of Chinese Fairy Tales by Hartwell James with illustrations by John R. Neill. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust.

The Jeweled Sea

The Moon Hare

The Willow Tree

Davis-Chow-Leung. Chinese Fables and Folk Stories

Today's free book is Chinese Fables and Folk Stories by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.

How the Moon became Beautiful
The Animals' Peace Party
The Widow and her Son
The Evergreen Tree and the Wilderness Marigold
The Snail and the Bees
The Proud Chicken
The Lemon Tree and the Pumelo
Woo Sing and the Mirror
Two Mothers and a Child
A Boy Who Would Not Tell a Lie
A Great Repentance and a Great Forgiveness
The Man who loved Money better than Life
The Hen and the Chinese Mountain Turtle
The Boy of Perfect Disposition
What the Yen Tzi taught the Hunter
A Lesson from Confucius
The Wind, the Clouds, and the Snow
The Fish and the Flowers
The Hen, the Cat, and the Bird
The Boy who wanted the Impossible
The Boy who became a Hsao-tsze
The Hunter, the Snipe, and the Bivalve
The Mule and the Lion
The Fa-Nien-Ts'ing and the Mon-Tien-Sing
The Body that deserted the Stomach
The Proud Fox and the Crab
A Little Chinese Rose
The Eagle and the Rice Birds
The Children and the Dog
The Two Mountains
A Chinese Prodigal Son
The Lion and the Mosquitoes
The Thief and the Elephant
The General, the Bird, and the Ant
Three Girls who went to a Boys' School
The Rattan Vine and the Rose Tree
The Melon and the Professor

Werner. Myths and Legends of China.

Today's free Kindle ebook is Myths and Legends of China by E.T.C. Werner (1921). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image, and for more information see the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook China unit.

Also available at: Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Sacred Texts, Hathi Trust, and Google Books. There is also a free Kindle ebook.

(P'an Kuan)

Table of Contents

I. The Sociology of the Chinese
II. On Chinese Mythology
III. Cosmogony—P’an Ku and the Creation Myth
IV. The Gods of China
V. Myths of the Stars
VI. Myths of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, and Rain
VII. Myths of the Waters
VIII. Myths of Fire
IX. Myths of Epidemics, Medicine, Exorcism, Etc.
X. The Goddess of Mercy
XI. The Eight Immortals
XII. The Guardian of the Gate of Heaven
XIII. A Battle of the Gods
XIV. How the Monkey Became a God
XV. Fox Legends
XVI. Miscellaneous Legends

Wilhelm. Chinese Fairy Book.

Today's book is The Chinese Fairy Book by Richard Wilhelm. You can find out more about this book in the The Monkey King unit of the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook, and also in the Chinese Fairy Tales unit.

For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

You can also find the book online at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Google Books, and Hathi Books. There is also a free Kindle ebook.

(The Weaving Maiden)

Table of Contents

NURSERY FAIRY TALES
I Women’s Words Part Flesh and Blood
II The Three Rhymsters
III How Greed for a Trifling Thing Led a Man to Lose a Great One
IV Who Was the Sinner?
V The Magic Cask
VI The Favorite of Fortune and the Child of Ill Luck
VII The Bird with Nine Heads
VIII The Cave of the Beasts
IX The Panther
X The Great Flood
XI The Fox and the Tiger
XII The Tiger’s Decoy
XIII The Fox and the Raven
XIV Why Dog and Cat are Enemies

LEGENDS OF THE GODS
XV How the Five Ancients Became Men
XVI The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden
XVII Yang Oerlang
XVIII Notscha
XIX The Lady of the Moon
XX The Morning and the Evening Star
XXI The Girl with the Horse’s Head or the Silkworm Goddess
XXII The Queen of Heaven
XXIII The Fire-God
XXIV The Three Ruling Gods
XXV A Legend of Confucius
XXVI The God of War

TALES OF SAINTS AND MAGICIANS
XXVII The Halos of the Saints
XXVIII Laotsze
XXIX The Ancient Man
XXX The Eight Immortals (I)
XXXI The Eight Immortals (II)
XXXII The Two Scholars
XXXIII The Miserly Farmer
XXXIV Sky O’Dawn
XXXV King Mu of Dschou
XXXVI The King of Huai Nan
XXXVII Old Dschang
XXXVIII The Kindly Magician

NATURE AND ANIMAL TALES
XXXIX The Flower-Elves
XL The Spirit of the Wu-Lian Mountain
[ix]XLI The King of the Ants
XLII The Little Hunting Dog
XLIII The Dragon After His Winter Sleep
XLIV The Spirits of the Yellow River
XLV The Dragon-Princess
XLVI Help in Need
XLVII The Disowned Princess
XLVIII Fox-Fire

GHOST STORIES
XLIX The Talking Silver Foxes
L The Constable
LI The Dangerous Reward
LII Retribution
LIII The Ghost Who Was Foiled
LIV The Punishment of Greed
LV The Night on the Battlefield
LVI The Kingdom of the Ogres
LVII The Maiden Who Was Stolen Away
LVIII The Flying Ogre
LIX Black Arts

HISTORIC LEGENDS
LX The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge
LXI The Three Evils
LXII How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because of Two Peaches
LXIII How the River God’s Wedding Was Broken Off
[x]LXIV Dschang Liang
LXV Old Dragonbeard
LXVI How Molo Stole the Lovely Rose-Red
LXVII The Golden Canister
LXVIII Yang Gui Fe
LXIX The Monk of the Yangtze-Kiang

LITERARY FAIRY TALES
LXX The Heartless Husband
LXXI Giauna the Beautiful
LXXII The Frog Princess
LXXIII Rose of Evening
LXXIV The Ape Sun Wu Kung