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Wang, Xiulu; Hu, Chuanji
Neohelicon (Budapest), 06/2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 1Journal Article
The story of Cinderella is probably one of the most widely told fairy tales in the world. The Chinese tales “Yeh Hsien” (葉限) recorded in Youyang Zazu ( 酉陽雜俎 , The Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang ), dating back to ninth-century China, is one of the oldest Cinderella tales. Based on a comparative reading of the stories of Chinese “Yeh Hsien,” Charles Perrault’s “Cendrillon ou la petite pantouffle de verre” in his Contes de ma mère l'Oye (1697), and the German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Aschenputtel” in their Kinder und Hausmärchen (1812), this paper seeks to highlight both common patterns and intrinsic differences between these stories, and to cast some light on what lies behind these similarities and differences.
