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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... ................ 427 94. The Woman from Jinling .................................. 438 95. Master Tang ..................................................... 441 96. The Hell King .......................................
... ........................................................ 585 124. Grand Master of the Five Sheep Fleeces ........... 587 125.The Furry Fox ............................................ 589 126. Pianpian .............................
... ... 731 154. The White Lotus Society Master ...................... 748 155. A Pair of Lanterns ...................... .................... 751 156. Chasing the Ghost and Shooting at the Fox .... 754 157.ADonkey Repays aDebt .......
... masters the magic of the mysterious White Lotus Society.4 Except in the case of autoethnography and its acknowledgment of personal biases or prejudices, ethnographers attempt to be objective about the groups they study. In this, Pu ...
... master of Daoist magic in “Driving Out a Monster” (qu guai), his name “known far and near,” and consequently finds himself in the position of freeing an official from the creature that had been plaguing him. Pu also exhibits the ...