Download or read book Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 17 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 17: 1882 To these examples may be added the use of fi $9 [113] as a translation of fesop's Fables, by the learned Mun Mong. Scientifically speaking, a fable is a Short allegory; but the Chinese have never classified so accurately as that, and are content to regard fables simply as anecdotes of fiction, without reference to their strictly allegorical character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.