Review: Yeh Shen " The Chinese Cinderella, The Albany
Long before there was Cinderella, there was Yeh Shen, a young girl who lives with her stepmother, stepsister and evil cat. Familiar so far? The basic plot of this traditional tale is identical to the story of Cinderella that the Western world knows so well. Yeh Shen, however, precedes Cinderella by over a thousand years as part of China’s storytelling tradition. This account is... Re…