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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... Shao Shimei ................................................ 1628 336. Scholar Gu ... Shao from Linzi .......................................... 1646 339. Yu Qu'e ................................................
... Shao Shimei” comes to accept that he is the reincarnation of Gao Donghai, who was wrongly convicted and died in prison on the day of Shao's birth, and in “Court Historian Jiang” (jiang taishi), Jiang Chao recalls his former life as a ...
... Shao from Linzi” (shao linzi) will be punished by officials, and, indeed, in the course of the story she's eventually flogged. Among the “spirits of the green woods and the dark spaces,” whose company Pu Songling finds preferable to the ...
... bones. There are only the master and my parents whom I cannot repay, So I will pray for them to be protected for generations. 335. Shao Shimei Jinshi Shao Shimei was from Jining. While Strange Tales from Liaozhai 1627.
... Shao, like they'd all known each other their entire lives. In the course of the conversation, Shao Shimei also asked the other two about someone named Gao Donghai. “He died in prison over twenty years ago,” replied the two scholars ...