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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... Shandong province. Every trip to China has been filled with serendipitous discoveries for me; I often share the astonishment there of Pu's characters, who, walking the mundane world one moment, in an instant find themselves in the ...
... Shandong province, and the god of that mountain), where the deity of the mountain maintained a ledger accounting for the deeds of every human being (Bonnefoy 238; Cline and Littlejohn 18). Early Chinese culture described the human soul ...
... Shandong province. The Liao River flows through Liaoning province and Inner Mongolia. which drives me to distraction! Although in real life our 393.
... Shandong province (Zhu 1:297n2). demand them back. Li maintained he didn't know what the 411.
... returned to see where it had come from, he found the place in his bamboo bookcase where its tracks had first begun to appear. Wuling county: In Shandong province. 91. Su the Immortal When Gao Mingtu was an official 418.