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The number of variants of the classic folk tale \\"Cinderella\\" is unknown but over 700 have been recorded, the earliest dating back to the ninth century. In China, during the ninth century, Tuan Ch\\'êng-Shih recorded a story about a girl, her family, and a ma ....

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.... have complained to her him \\"[h]e would have scolded her, for he was entirely under his wife\\'s thumb\\" (Perrault 600). The African Cinderella\\'s father had two wives. One, Cinderella\\'s mother, he could not abide, while the other he adored. When Cinderella\\'s mother died he put Cinderella in the hands of his remaining wife, who made Cinderella a slave. In the Chinese version Cinderella\\'s father loved her very much but he died, thus, familiarly, leaving Cinderella in the hands of her cruel stepmother. The role of Cinderella\\'s stepmother and stepsister is mainly to belittle, control, and mistreat Cinderella, which they accomplish by givi ....