A Promise of Gold | 一诺千金
To establish credibility for his reforms, Qin Prime Minister Shang Yang publicly and generously r...
The Marks of Life | 生命的印记
A world-champion disabled skier recounts her journey through a second cancer diagnosis and bilate...
The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat | 可怜的磨坊小伙和猫
A simple miller's boy, deemed foolish, is abandoned by his peers but gains a magical opportunity ...
The Roofer's Ghost | 房顶工人的幽灵
The narrator recounts a strange injury sustained during the 1987 Whittier earthquake while standi...
The Man and the Seagulls | 人与海鸥
A man's pure friendship with seagulls is broken when his father asks him to capture them, causing...
A Special Skill | 一技之长
This story tells how the scholar Gongsun Long valued and recruited a man whose only skill was lou...
Xiangyun's Drunken Slumber | 湘云醉卧
During a birthday drinking party in the peony garden, the witty Xiangyun teases the maids with a ...
The Man with the Coconuts | 驮椰子的人
A man ignores a boy's paradoxical advice to go slowly with a heavy load of coconuts. By rushing, ...
Fly High and Far | 远走高飞
A courtier, long overlooked by his ruler, uses the analogy of a commonplace rooster versus a dist...
The Origin of Evil | 邪恶的起源
A professor argues that if God created everything, He must have created evil, thus making God evi...
Mutual Respect | 相敬如宾
A Spring and Autumn Period official, inspired by a respectful farming couple, advocated employing...
The Smoke Signal | 孤岛上的信号
A shipwreck survivor on a deserted island loses his shelter to a fire, which ultimately becomes t...
The Stone Dog | 石犬
A faithful dog waits eternally on a ridge for his fisherman master who perished in a hurricane, e...
Cinderella | 灰姑娘
Cinderella, a kind-hearted girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, attends the royal b...
Counting on Luck | 心存侥幸
Despite a brutal law in the state of Chu that sentenced secret gold panners to be torn apart, man...
The Deer Hunt | 即鹿无虞
The fable contrasts two hunting approaches: success comes from planning with a guide's knowledge,...
A Single Hair from Nine Oxen | 九牛一毛
The story recounts how General Li Ling's surrender led to tragedy and how historian Sima Qian, pu...
The Walnut Tree | 核桃树
A roadside walnut tree, despite its generous yield, is harmed by passersby who violently harvest ...
The Value of Words | 多言何益
Mozi uses the analogy of noisy creatures versus the timely rooster to teach that effective commun...
A Pleasant Encounter? | 一次愉快的邂逅？
This excerpt from Edna O'Brien's *The Girl with Green Eyes* captures the intense, awkward, and bi...
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