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Sweet and Sour: Tales from China

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By Carol Kendall; YaoWen Li
Publisher HMH Trade
Sweet and Sour: Tales from China
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Twentyfour unusual tales from various periods in Chinese history, some complex, others as brief as a joke, display the wit, cleverness, and downtoearth wisdom of the Chinese people.

22486 words22,486 words
112 pages112 pages
Lexile 1020LLexile 1020L
Published 1990Published 1990

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Book ISBN:

9780395547984

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