tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817835476996956670.post8853584767759087001..comments2024-03-12T09:44:18.874-07:00Comments on Howling Frog Books: Falling in LoveJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817835476996956670.post-52085729718164065182015-05-13T18:29:29.584-07:002015-05-13T18:29:29.584-07:00Good question! Evidently they were quite popular....Good question! Evidently they were quite popular. The back blurb says "They are taken from two works, "Constant Words to Awaken the World" (Xing shi heng yan) and a related collection, "The Rocks Nod Their Heads" (Shi dian tou), both published in the early seventeenth century." The introduction has more information, but I'm afraid I already returned the book. Sorry.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817835476996956670.post-2209388010550375162015-05-13T15:08:58.727-07:002015-05-13T15:08:58.727-07:00Cool! What does the book say about the origin of t...Cool! What does the book say about the origin of the stories? Like what kind of currency they had in the period in which they were written? I'd be really interested to know that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com