Chinese short stories

Chinese fairy tale

thumb|page=32|A page from a modern copy of Yandanzi The Yandanzi or Yan Danzi () is an ancient Chinese text composed between the Qin and Han dynasties. Although some scholars favors a pre-Han dating for the text, others date the work to the early Han. Yandanzi has achieved considerable fame by the 2nd century BC. The anonymous text is a narrative tale regarding the attempted assassination of Qin Shi Huang.