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Title: Eastern Shame Girl
The Wedding of Ya-Nei; A Strange Destiny; The Error of the Embroidered
Slipper; The Counterfeit Old Woman; The Monastery of the
Esteemed-Lotus; A Complicated Marriage

Author: Charles Georges Souli

Release Date: April 19, 2004 [EBook #12086]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Note: This book was published as Chinese Love Tales in
1935 (translated from the original of George Souile De Morant
--a variation in the spelling of the middle name) with numerous
illustrations by Valenti Angelo. It was attacked and acquitted in the
courts, winning judicial recognition of its exceptional literary merit.]

_EASTERN SHAME GIRL_

_Translated from the French of_
GEORGE SOULIE DEMORANT

_Illustrations by_
MARCEL AVOND

_New York
Privately Printed 1929_

CONTENTS

EASTERN SHAME GIRL

THE WEDDING OF YA-NEI

A STRANGE DESTINY

THE ERROR OF THE EMBROIDERED SLIPPER

THE COUNTERFEIT OLD WOMAN

THE MONASTERY OF THE ESTEEMED-LOTUS

A COMPLICATED MARRIAGE

_Note:--The original source of the stories
appearing in "Eastern Shame Girl" is the
classic literature of China in the 17th Century._

EASTERN SHAME GIRL

When there is a great peace
Under the gold cup of the sun
Joy reaches its flowering.

In the twentieth year of the period Wan-li, there came, among the
thousands of students who gathered at Peking for the examinations, a
certain Li, whose first name was Chia and his surname Ch'ien-hsi, or
"Purified-a-thousand times." His family were from Shao-hsing fu in
Chekiang; his father was Judge of the province of Kang-su; and Li
himself was the eldest of three brothers. He had studied in the
village school from childhood and, not having yet attained to
literary rank, had come, according to custom, to present himself for
examination at Peking. While in that city, he