Duan Chengshi
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Duan Chengshi (Chinese: 段成式; Wade-Giles: Tuan Ch'engshih, d. 863) was an author and scholar of the Tang Dynasty in China. He was born to a wealthy family in present day Zibo, Shandong.
Duan is best known for being the author of the earliest known version of Cinderella. In all probability, it was a folktale told by peasants before it was recorded on paper.
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang was a collection of stories he had gathered and published approximately 853, shortly after he returned to Chang'an after his term of acting Governor of Jizhou. In this compilation of stories was Yeh-Shen, the story we know as Cinderella.
Duan Chengshi is also known for describing in his written work of 863 AD the slave trade, ivory trade, and ambergris trade of Bobali, which is now Berbera in Somalia, East Africa (see Maritime section of Tang Dynasty for more).[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Levathes, 38.
[edit] References
- Levathes (1994). When China Ruled the Seas. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-70158-4.
[edit] External links
- Cinderella Around The World
- Professor Derk Bodde. Chinese ideas in the West (pdf)
- A Chinese Cinderella
