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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... .................... 2339 470. Scholar Ji ................................................... 2348 471. Scholar Zhou ............................................. 2357 472. 473. 474. 475. 476. 477. 478. 479. 480. 481.
... Zhou Youde, in Zhou's capacity as provincial governor, becomes involved with a chicken spirit who adopts a seductive female appearance and begins to destroy his health, until Feng hires a sorcerer to help rid him of her—and the spirit ...
... Zhou” (zhou sheng) composes some irreverent verse with gay overtones about county magistrate Xu, then dies mysteriously as a result; the reader is shocked, however, to discover that Xu's wife (who also read the poem) and Zhou's servants ...
... Zhou, explaining, “I didn't take from you according to whether you were poor or rich, whether you had money to spare or didn't . . . but determined the amount that guilt could force you to give.” And merchant Zhou, as you'll see, has a ...
... Zhou dynasty (eleventh century B.C.E. to 256 B.C.E.), The Rites of Zhou explains that there are six rituals, or etiquettes, that must be followed for a marriage to be considered legitimate and decorous: a go-between or matchmaker draws ...