Madam White Snake - Thunder God - Shaolin Temple. Traditional Chinese Culture Series - The wisdom of the classics in comics ISBN: 9787514320510

Chinese Title: 蔡志忠漫画中国传统文化经典:白蛇传·雷公转·少林寺(中英文对照版)
ISBN-10: 7-5143-2051-2, 7514320512
ISBN-13: 978-7-5143-2051-0, 9787514320510
Series: Traditional Chinese Culture Series
Pages: 356
Binding: softcover
Pages: 640g
Size: 168mm x 233mm
Language: simplified Chinese, English
Year of Publication: 2014

This new edition includes three comic adaptions of Chinese classics in simplified Chinese and English: Madam White Snake (白蛇传), Thunder God (雷公转) and Shaolin Temple (少林寺).

Madam White Snake (白蛇传)
Part of the Traditional Chinese Culture series, it is an illustrated adaptation of a well-known legendary folktale about the love story between a snake spirit who transformed to a female human (Madam White Snake) and a young male human Xu Xian. The book tells the incredible story through cartoon panels with a text that is irreverently humorous yet replete with wisdom. It is a great and easy tool to learn Chinese classics.

Thunder God (雷公转)
Part of the Traditional Chinese Culture Series, this book is an illustrated adaptation of two classical short stories of the selection "Short Stories of the Tang Dynasty" (Chinese: 唐代传奇). Collected and popularized by the immensely popular Chinese illustrator Tsai Chih Chung, the selection includes the two fantastic tales Lei Gong Chuan (Chinese: 雷公传, English: Thunder God)  and She Tian Shi (Chinese: 蛇天师, English: Snake Master) with cartoon panels and a text that is irreverently humorous yet replete with wisdom. It is a great and easy tool to learn Chinese classics. It is illustrated in comic style, including the modern Chinese text in simplified characters with English translations.

Shaolin Temple (少林寺)
Part of The Traditional Chinese Culture series, this book is an illustrated adaptation of history and the originality of martial arts and knowledge of Shaolin school and Wudang Mountain school of martial arts. Collected and popularized by the immensely popular Chinese illustrator Tsai Chih Chung, Shaolin Temple brings an interesting introduction to martial arts for the reader of today through cartoon panels with a text that is irreverently humorous yet replete with wisdom. A great series to learn about the Chinese classics in a simple and entertaining format. Shaolin Temple is illustrated in comic style, with the Chinese text in simplified characters with English translations.

《蔡志忠漫画中国传统文化经典:白蛇传·雷公转·少林寺(中英文对照版)》指出中国早期思想家的著作，一直影响着中国文化和社会的方方面面，从教育到艺术，从政治和战争到日常礼节。而广受欢迎的漫画家蔡志忠，一直致力于用他独特而引人入胜、跨越了语言和文化的漫画，将这些古代经典著作的智慧带入现代人的生活。在这些作品取得巨大的成功和广泛的影响后，蔡志忠将创作方向转移到宏达的中国传统经典著作上，经蔡氏改编的这些漫画作品，同样广受评论家的好评并快速成为影响海内外的畅销书，为海外了解中国又打开了一个快捷窗口。