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Chinese Cinderella derives its name from the ninth-century Chinese folktale Ye Xian, which is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Cinderella story. Read this 1948 translation of the original text from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) and compare it to this memoir. What elements of the original folktale are reflected in Chinese Cinderella? How does the modern text diverge from Ye Xian, and why?