Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 1462900739

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Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. 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 Zhaocheng The Magic Sword Miss Lianziang, the Fox-Girl The Quarrelsome Brothers The Princess Lily A Rip Van Winkle The Resuscitated Corpse Taoist Miracles A Chinese Solomon

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Author: Sung-ling P'u

Publisher:

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1421248557

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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd. in London, 1916.

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0141928522

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The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Translated by Herbert A. Giles
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Translated by Herbert A. Giles

Author: Pu Sung-Ling

Publisher: Appleby Press

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1445590875

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Author: Songling Pu

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13:

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Chinese Ghost Stories - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, is a collection of 164 Classical Chinese stories compiled by Pu Songling. These hair-raising tales focus on the everyday life of commoners and their interaction ghosts, fox spirits, immortals, demons and other spirits. Pu Songling used the supernatural and the unexplainable to illustrate his ideas of society and government. Through the stories he criticized the corruption and injustice in society and sympathized with the poor. With the embedded Confucian-styled moral standards and Taoist principles this collection of supernatural stories. Dating back to the Qing dynasty, its earliest publication date is given as 1740. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television. Long considered of true classic of Chinese literature, this second edition of Herbert Giles translation, with over 600 footnotes of backstory, provides a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of the Chinese in the time period, while tantalizing the reader with tales of the supernatural.

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Author: Herbert Allen Giles

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9781535043106

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio by Herbert Allen Giles. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1916 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.