It's a cold winter day in Beijing. A barefoot girl is running down a street. What will happen to her? What dangers await her? In this book you will learn of Little Ai's adventures. You will read about wandering actors, medieval Chinese plays, and Kuan Han-Ch'ing, the great Chinese playwright. The story takes place in the thirteenth century, when China was under the Mongol rule. Originally published in Russian in 1962, "The Story of Little Ai" became a classic for generations of Russian children. * * * OLGA GURIAN was the pen name of Olga Kalabushkina, a Russian children's writer (1899-1973)....