The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub, and the Story of Ching-Kwei and the Destinies

Notes

These are the first and last of 7 stories (as covered at Wikipedia) that Kai Lung tells within the 1928 novel Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat.

'... "The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub" and "The Story of Ching-Kwei and the Destinies", the two best in the collection, will appear so deliciously droll [to admirers] that the wallet of Kai Lung is likely to continue to be suitably replenished ...' --review of Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat by T. M. in "Books of the Day", The Manchester Guardian 1928-06-01, p. 5

Library of Congress reports "[c1927]" (unstated copyright year). No such chapbook is found 2019-10-19 in WorldCat library records.

If published in 1927 this is one of the first books from Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., created by merger of Doubleday, Page and George H. Doran in 1927.

These two stories were published in the 1928 book Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, which is a novel at ISFDB (see).

Copyright year may refer only to 1927 publication of "The Story of Wan" in The London Mercury, {{OCLC|221488224}}. {{OCLC|221495046}} reports it contained in The Best British Short Stories of 1928.