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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... 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 period ...
... dynasty (Leibovitz and Miller 48), unambiguously communicated the Qing rulers' commitment to preempting dissidence. Yet Slavenka Drakulic has demonstrated how even non-violent methods of state coercion used to manipulate citizen ...
... dynasty to power (Booth 10; cf. ter Haar 18-19). Thus even an indirect criticism of Qing dynasty politics and values (or praise of Ming practices) would have run the risk of execution for treason. Yet Pu takes precisely such a risk in a ...
... 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 Song ...
... dynasty like General Wu Sangui, begin openly raping any women they encounter, only a woman from the Zhang family “didn't try to hide, brazenly choosing instead to stay in her own home.” As one of her home defense tactics, the woman ...