https://cntales.comA quiet place to writeenThu, 10 Sep 2026 05:29:54 +0800https://cntales.com/en/privacy-policy.htmlhttps://cntales.com/en/privacy-policy.htmlPrivacy Policy CNTales runs no tracking ads and sells no personal data. Newsletter: used only to send the weekly story; unsubscribe anytime. Comments: your display name and message are public; email is used only for replies and notices. Logs: standard server logs for security and troubleshooting, not profiling. Questions? Reach us via the Contribute page.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:00:46 +0800https://cntales.com/en/contribute.htmlhttps://cntales.com/en/contribute.htmlContribute to CNTales CNTales is a multilingual project publishing one Chinese story a week — folk tales, myths and contemporary oral accounts, told with restraint, honesty and clear sourcing. We are looking for two kinds of people: Translators — native-level, who can carry context across, not just words. Priority languages: EN, ES, FR, JA, KO, DE, AR (other languages welcome too). Writers / field recorders — people willing to listen, document and verify sources; knowledge of regional storytelliThu, 10 Sep 2026 03:50:58 +0800https://cntales.com/en/subscribe.htmlhttps://cntales.com/en/subscribe.htmlSubscribe One tale every Sunday. No noise. No agenda. Just a story that stays with you. Folk tales, myths and the people who still tell them — translated from China, straight to your inbox.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:50:58 +0800https://cntales.com/en/promise.htmlhttps://cntales.com/en/promise.htmlOur Promise to You Every story on CNTales is checked against at least two sources. When a story is oral history, we clearly mark it as such. We don't exoticize. We don't simplify. We translate — not just language, but context. When we retell a folk tale, we name its region and its teller if known; when we share a myth, we keep its strangeness instead of polishing it into a moral.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:50:58 +0800https://cntales.com/en/about.htmlhttps://cntales.com/en/about.htmlAbout CNTales CNTales started with a simple frustration: the stories China tells itself rarely travel well. They get flattened into symbols — dragons, lanterns, rice fields. We collect the versions that don't flatten: a tale told by a ferryman, a myth that a grandmother still uses to explain the weather, an object whose maker has forgotten why it matters. We translate them into languages that can carry them, and we mark clearly what is history, what is legend, and what is simply one person's memThu, 10 Sep 2026 03:50:58 +0800