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New Arrangement of Stories
Liu Xiang, librarian of the Han imperial collection, gathered stories from the old records to instruct the emperor, and the New Arrangement of Stories is the result: some two hundred anecdotes of rulers and ministers, sages and fools, from the legendary kings to the early Han. A minister risks his life to remonstrate; a ruler learns humility from a farmer; a hunter spares a fawn and wins a kingdom. The stories are short, vivid and often famous, the shared moral imagination of early China. This complete new English translation covers all the surviving chapters with the collation notes. Names are given in modern pinyin, offices and titles are rendered plainly, and the narrative runs as continuous English prose, so the book can be read straight through by anyone curious about China's past, not only by specialists.
