Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2The 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. |
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... 790 165. The Earth God's Wife ..................................... 792 166. The Daoist from Jinan ................................... 794 Works Cited .......................................................... xxxi Acknowledgments ...
... (jinan daoren) for revealing the official's covetousness: while the Daoist seems to suffer nothing at all, the official's own buttocks begin to bleed from the beating. Notes 1 Temple booklets, for example, can be obtained that allow the ...
... A Daoist deity, Kuixing is the god of literature, calligraphy, scholarship, and examinations. Three li: A distance equal to one mile. 88. The Begging Monk In Jinan, there was a certain 412 Strange Tales from Liaozhai.
Pu Songling. 88. The. Begging. Monk. In Jinan, there was a certain Buddhist monk, about whose background no one knew anything. Barefoot, his robe full of patches, all day long he wandered through the restaurants and hotels on Lotus and ...
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