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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... remarks that conclude segments of his Records of the Grand Historian. Pu's strategy of not identifying himself as the author of the tales also functions as a deflection device by identifying him merely as the compiler of others ...
... strange tales.” Notes 1 See the discussions of this point in the preceding volumes (1:xii-xiii; 2:xii-xiii; 3:xvi). 2 Guan Yu, the Three Kingdoms hero who was deified, after his death, as Guandi or Guangong (see Sondergard and Collins ...
... unusual nature taking place. The collector of these strange tales remarks, “Like the man of green hills and white clouds, Tao also drank himself to death, and though the world may feel sorry for him, he might not have seen it as such a ...
... strange tales remarks, “The accumulation of possessions in this world provokes jealousy, and obsessive love of them causes evil: if this makes Yan Ruyu a demon, then it must make books monstrous things. The whole business was weird, and ...
... strange tales remarks, “Once upon a time, a scholar who was passing a temple went in and painted a pipa on one wall, then left; when he checked on it later, its spiritual power was considered so outstanding that people had joined ...