Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ye Xian" in English language version.
... including the Chinese "Cinderella" tale (Ye Xian, 叶限) ATU510A, first introduced to the West by R. D. Jameson (1932).
The earliest recorded variant of "Cinderella" is often identified as Duan Chengshi's "Ye Xian" from approximately 850 CE China...