TY - BOOK AU - McLaren,Ann Elizabeth TI - Ming Chantefable and the Early Chinese Novel: A Study of the 'Chenghua' Period 'Cihua' PY - 1988/// CY - Ann Arbor, Mich. N1 - Ph.D. in Chinese, Canberra, 1982; Examines the relationship between the newly discovered fifteenth century chantefables (ci hua) texts and the early vernacular novel. Treats in detail three chantefables -- the stories of Hua Guan-suo, Xue Ren-gui, and Shi Jing-tang -- which were ER -