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  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Qing Dynasty Ghosts, Fox Spirits, Folklore, and Supernatural Tales of Imperial China

    by Songling Pu, Celia Orwinley ...
    Translated by Herbert Allen Giles ...
    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2) gathers Pu Songling's celebrated classical tales of ghosts, fox-spirits, demons, scholars, lovers, judges, and eccentrics. Written in elegant wenyan prose yet alive with anecdotal immediacy, these stories transform the zhiguai and chuanqi traditions into subtle moral, erotic, and social fictions. The supernatural is never mere ornament: it ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by John Minford ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    by Pu Songling ...
    Written during the early Qing Dynasty, “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales by Chinese author Pu Songling. The work, which was published posthumously sometime between 1740 and 1766, is comprised of stories varying in length. While the main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals, and demons, Pu Songling is more ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    by Pu Songling ...
    Written during the early Qing Dynasty, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales by Chinese author Pu Songling. The work, which was published posthumously sometime between 1740 and 1766, is comprised of stories varying in length. While the main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals and demons, Pu Songling is more focused ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 2 (of 2)

    by Songling Pu ...
    The Painted Skin: A story about a scholar who unknowingly marries a fox spirit disguised as a beautiful woman. The tale explores themes of deception, love, and the supernatural.The Magic Sword: This story revolves around a scholar who acquires a magical sword that gives him incredible power but also brings about unexpected consequences.The Taoist Priest of Lao Mountain: A Taoist priest encounters ... Read more

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  • Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3

    by Pu Songling, Translated and Annotated by Sidney L. Sondergard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4

    by Pu Songling, Translated and Annotated by Sidney L. Sondergard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1

    by Pu Songling, Translated and Annotated by Sidney L. Sondergard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Story 12: The Painted Skin

    Sample Titles from Pu Songling, #10

    by Pu Songling ...
    Series Book 10 - Sample Titles from Pu Songling
    This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin. ... Read more

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  • Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures

    by Songling Pu ...
    The stories are known for their imaginative plots and often feature ghosts, demons, Taoist priests, scholars, and ordinary people encountering extraordinary events. Some stories are humorous, while others are eerie or moralistic in nature. Pu Songling's storytelling skill lies in his ability to weave together the supernatural with the mundane, creating a rich tapestry of narratives that reflect ... Read more

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  • Story 1: Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel

    Sample Titles from Pu Songling, #1

    by Pu Songling ...
    Series Book 1 - Sample Titles from Pu Songling
    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, commonly known in China as the Liao Zhai, was first published in 1740, although it existed in manuscript form before then. Little is known about the author Pu Songling, except that he completed the lowest (or bachelor's) degree in the Chinese examinations. Ten years after his graduation, he had not progressed to an advanced degree. Despite his failures in the ... Read more

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  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

    The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by Herbert A. Giles ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD