From:
lenona321@yahoo.com
Lafcadio Hearn famously retold the story of tragic filial piety in 1887 - or earlier. (It appears in his book Some Chinese Ghosts.)
Trouble is, people seem to disagree on just when in the early 15th century the bell was made - never mind what time of year it was!
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Hearn_Great_Bell.pdf
It's five pages long. Other versions say the girl's name is "Ko-Ai" - and from what I can see, "Ko-Ngai" is a Thai name, so maybe "Ko-Ai" WOULD make more sense.
I first saw a tamed-down version of it in the children's international collection The Sunken City (it used the term "a maiden of pure heart"). Later, Margaret Hodges retold it as The Voice of the Great Bell, and the Chinese-born Caldecott Medalist Ed
Young illustrated it.
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