Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6The 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 sixth of 6 volumes. |
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... Han dynasty culture, chatting up numerous female museum and retail employees about mutually-beneficial business propositions (several of them involving a friend of his whose shop sells clothing styled on Hanera illustrations) over a ...
... Han Chinese majority that banned traditional Chinese clothing (汉服, hanfu) ... dynasty (Leibovitz and Miller 48), unambiguously communicated the Qing ... China, just as in our own times, an atmosphere that combines oppression with ...
... Han dynasty author Ban Zhao (c. 45-116 C.E.) wrote the Admonitionsfor Women (女誡 nüjie) in order to emphasize principles that guide a woman as she creates harmony within the household. Tang dynasty sisters Song Ruoxin (d. 820?) and ...
... Han Dynasty, and just as he was about halfway through, he came across a gauze cut-out of a beautiful woman pressed between its pages. Surprised, he exclaimed, “Is this what is meant by the jade-like beauties to be found in books?” He ...
... Han Dynasty, then carefully leafed through it to the place where he'd first Yan . . . Ruyu: The History of the Han Dynasty passage had asserted that a face, or beauty (yan 颜), like jade (ru yu 如玉), would be found in books. The beauty ...