Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5The 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 fifth of 6 volumes. |
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... ... 1662 343. Traveler Tong .............................................. 1675 344. The Army in Liaoyang ................................. 1679 345. Gongshi Zhang ........................................... 1681 346. Ainu ..............
... Liaoyang” (liaoyang jun) prompts an underworld accountant to bring documentation attesting that the soldier's time to die has not yet arrived; to rectify the error, the soldier's head is rejoined to his body in a miraculous healing ...
... Liaoyang.” “Where are you going?” asked Dong. “I've been traveling for twenty years,” Tong told him, “and now I'm returning home from abroad.” “Sinceyou'vebeenallaroundtheworld,andyou've encounteredsomanypeople,haveyouevermetanytruly ...
... through with it, I guess I won't die from people's gossiping.” Then the couple was reconciled. This is just as ridiculous as the story of Xie Jin. 344. The Army in Liaoyang There was a certain fellow 1678 Strange Tales from Liaozhai.
Pu Songling. 344. The. Army. in. Liaoyang. There was a certain fellow from Yishui, who during the Ming dynasty was serving in the army in Liaoyang. On one occasion, there was an attack on the city walls, and the Yishui soldier was killed in ...