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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... father steals, the son will certainly become a thief, for that's how corruption works.” His private papers indicate that Pu Songling had finished the majority of his stories in this collection by the age of 40. Yet they remained ...
... father's library, for he couldn't bear to part with even one of them. During his lifetime, Lang's father had once written out a copy of the Encouragement of Learning, which he then pasted up for its words of wisdom, and Lang Yuzhu ...
... father, who served as a supervisory commissioner for Pengcheng and who was a devout Buddhist, visited the area. Someone advised Lang to make the commissioner a present of the golden carriage for his private Buddha shrine. The ...
... father's colleagues, to request that his status as a scholar be reinstated. That same year he was successful in the fall examinations, and the following year he qualified as a jinshi. Yet he bore a grudge against Shi that seemed to ...
... father, who was sincere and unaffected in personality, elegantly expressed his position that he couldn't approve of the marriage, citing Kunsheng's youth as his rationale. Even though his intention had been simply to reject the frog ...