Chinese Fairy & Folk Tales – Richard Wilhelm – Paper Books

From moonlit pagodas to forgotten mountain paths and lantern-lit riverbanks… Chinese Fairy & Folk Tales gathers the timeless legends of China ‒stories whispered across dynasties, carried by storytellers, scholars, fishermen, wanderers, and traveling poets. Within these pages you will meet fox spirits who borrow human faces, dragons who rule the seasons and the seas, wise immortals who bend fate, tricksters armed with clever words, precious talismans with hidden power, and the gentle pulse of an ancient belief that the seen and the unseen are only a breath apart. Once told in courtyard nights beneath silk-bright stars, these narratives speak both to the dreaming child and to the adult who still senses mystery behind the ordinary. Chinese fairy tales are not simply magical ‒they are a record of duty, honor, longing, sacrifice, and that deep yearning for harmony that shapes the heart. Open these pages, and the hush of old China will rise again ‒until its distant echoes feel startlingly near.