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The Cowherd and the Weaving Girl

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

A translation of a famous Chinese story, by Kevin Qi

Author’s note: Apparently there are like billions of versions of this story because it’s something like a thousand years old. This translation is mainly based on a version that our teacher read out of a Chinese book, probably a preschooler’s schoolbook or something, for our accelerated college class. Also, I wasn’t quite paying attention for the second half of the story.

Some of the nuances of the story may have been lost in translation, but the important details are there.

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