The Cinderella Cycle in China and Indo-ChinaA study of variants of the Cinderella tale type (AT 510A) from China and Vietnam. The plot of each version is described, along with significant details, in order to show the relations between the different versions of the tale type. |
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Ancient Tradition asked back home bamboo tube beans beautiful becomes bird boiling water carp carrying water Cham Chinese folklore Chinese versions Chuang Cinderella clothes conte cow's tail dance dress drowned duck shed Eberhard Empress Ma eyes father festival fish Folktales girl gold golden Grandma hair Han-Chinese heard heroine heroine's horse husband Indo-China Jang Wei Junior killed king Kochi ku-shih Kwangsi Kwangtung legend little bottle mama marry Miao Middle Eastern Modern Chinese Tradition Modern Tradition motif mountain narratives North China North Vietnam Old Lung older daughter older sister open the jar picked plot pockmarks prince resemblance rice Rooth sequel Shanghai sheep shoe test Silver Flower Sinkiang Sino-Indo-Chinese oikotype sparrow stepmother stepsister story T'ang dynasty tasks Three-Eyes Tibet Tibetan told tree Tuan Ch'eng-shih Tung turned the bottle Two-Eyes Uigur variants village watching water buffalo wife writer Yang Lang Yang P'a younger sister Yunnan