This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being and how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace... » 

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being and how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts, rain-makers, students and magicians, and a man who is nearly made into fishpaste. «