About Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. WPLBN0002951585 google_ad_width = 160; Format Type: /* 160x600, created 12/31/07 */ The cast of characters includes vixen spirits, ghosts, scholars, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. . google_ad_client = "pub-2707004110972434"; Ghosts and spirits are often bold and trustworthy, while humans are on the other hand weak, indecisive and easily manipulated, reflecting the author's own disillusionment with his society. MLA          Sexual Content Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the stories. "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. Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the stories. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2) Language: English: LoC Class: PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania: Subject: China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Subject: Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English Category: Text: EBook-No. . Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan.Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and of hair-raising tales best read with the lights turned low on a quiet night.Some of the stories found in these pages include:The Tiger of ZhaochengThe Magic SwordMiss Lianziang, the Fox-GirlThe Quarrelsome BrothersThe Princess LilyA Rip Van WinkleThe Resuscitated CorpseTaoist MiraclesA Chinese Solomon, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Vol. . ( Wikipedia), 63 - The Lo-Ch‘a Country and the Sea-market, Appendix A Part II - The Ten Courts of Justice. (Summary from Wikipedia), Electronic recorded live performance of a reading.

File Size: Ghosts and spirits are often bold and trustworthy, while humans are on the other hand weak, indecisive and easily manipulated, reflecting the author's own disillusionment with his society. google_ad_width = 728; He borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. Chicago, , Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selection), volume 1, 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. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws. //-->, This book will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. google_ad_slot = "4852765988";