... story every girl's fairy tale. Although many of these elements are present in each of the versions of this traditional tale, there also are key differences, often marked by their distinct cultural peculiarities. The original tale from China, Yeh-Shen, predates the western versions of Cinderella by almost 1, ... conflict, the handsome prince locating his mystery love by means of a unique and unusually small slipper. The subsequent variations of the story have this skeleton structure but include different variables such as: Where is the father figure?; What happened to the original wife and...

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