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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... Monk ........................................... 413 89. Vanquishing Foxes ... Monks from the West ............................... 482 103. The.
Pu Songling. 102. The Monks from the West ............................... 482 103. The Greedy Man ............................................. 484 104 ... Monks ......................................... 558 119. The Fox Concubine ...
... monk named Ti Kong (“The Foreign Monks” [fan seng]), and of officials Li Jingyi (“The Black Beast” [hei shou]) and Wang Zixun (“The Frogs' Song” [wa qu] and “The Performing Mice” [shu xi]). Since he is an author and a collector of ...
... Monk” (gai seng) to make his requests, pestering him until he finally takes drastic measures to escape their interference; in “Scholar Huo” (huo sheng), a man named Wang, from Pu's hometown, learns the dangers of demeaning others; and ...
... monk in “A Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream” (xu huangliang) similarly humiliates a smug scholar named Zeng, whose ambitions for high office change radically in response. Scholar Feng allows jealousy and drunkenness to tarnish his ...