Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0895810492

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The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 5 of 6.

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0895810433

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The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.

The Tower of Myriad Mirrors
The Tower of Myriad Mirrors

Author: Yueh Tung

Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0892641428

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China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.

Historian of the Strange
Historian of the Strange

Author: Judith T. Zeitlin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 0804729689

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This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0895810018

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The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the first of 6 volumes.

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 089581045X

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"The subjects of Pu Songling's short story collection include supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhism and Daoism, and Chinese folklore"--Provided by publisher.

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0895810476

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The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 4 of 6.

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6
Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0895810514

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The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the sixth of 6 volumes.

Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio
Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio

Author: Pu Songling

Publisher:

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781410219046

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Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written. Living under a feudal monarchy, the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters. Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal superstition and fatalism. The stories in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language, but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later novels and operas.