Fairy tales with an edgeSourced
A children's book
looked at hardship too.
Ye Shengtao's The Scarecrow, published in China in 1923, collected 23 fairy tales. Alongside childhood wonder, some stories confronted the hardship of peasants and workers. It is regarded as an early landmark of modern Chinese children's literature.
These fairy tales
did not turn away from life.
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