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Apr 3, 2024 · Pu Songling was a Chinese fiction writer whose Liaozhai zhiyi (1766; “Strange Stories from Liaozhai’s Studio”; Eng. trans. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories. Pu’s impressive collection of 431 tales of the unusual and supernatural was largely.
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Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲 松 齡, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi).
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An excerpt from the original manuscript of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. A depiction of the story "Luo Zu", from an illustrated edition located in the National Museum of China. Pu assembled the nearly five hundred short and lengthy tales over a period of forty years between the early 1670s and the early 1700s. [2] .
Nov 14, 2017 · First English translation of Pu Songling's collection of classical Chinese stories, including magical pear trees, thimble-sized babies, ghostly cities, and mean spirited daughters-in-law being turned into pigs.
A selection of 20 of Pu Songling’s strange tales rewritten in modern Chinese, the texts were presented in both traditional and simplified characters. The stories featured a lovely mixture of ghosts, fox spirits and trips to the underworld.
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Oct 29, 2018 · It consists of 491 tales in 16 volumes, mostly stories about fox-fairies, flower-spirits, ghosts, and goblins, which are the dominant theme of the entire collection. Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715), the author of the “Strange Tales from Liaozhai,” was a native of Zichuan County, in the Shandong Province.
Apr 4, 2009 · "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese.
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