Strange stories from a Chinese studio.

by Pu Songling

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Published 1966 by Far Eastern Publications, Yale University in New Haven .
Written in

Subjects:

• Chinese language -- Readers

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Edition Notes

Other titles	Liao chai ku shih
Statement	[Edited by] Linda Hsia and Roger Yeu
Series	Mirror series B -- no. 12, Mirror series B -- no. 12
Contributions	Hsia, Linda, Yeu, Roger
Classifications
LC Classifications	PL2722.U2 L5215 1966
The Physical Object
Pagination	vii, 151 p.
Number of Pages	151
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL14658254M

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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai) is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio overflows with ghosts, demons, monsters, monks, magicians, revived corpses, gods and fox-spirits [It] calls to mind a collection of mildly racy club stories or lost episodes of The Twilight Zone Fast paced, surprisingly light in tone, emotionally cool, wryly humorous—these uncanny tales, often /5(66).

Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1) Songling PU ( - ), translated by Herbert Allen GILES ( - ) "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, or Liaozhai Zhiyi, is a collection of Classic Chinese stories by Pu Songling, comprising close to five hundred "marvel tales".Dating back to the Qing dynasty, its earliest publication date is given as Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television, including the films A Chinese Ghost. Description: Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about short stories by Pu Songling ( - ), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified.

The story was originally titled "Huapi" (畫皮) and first appeared in Pu Songling's anthology of supernatural tales, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai) in It was first translated into English as "The Painted Skin" by the British sinologist Herbert A. Giles and was included in Author: Pu Songling.   Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2 by Songling PU ( - ), translated by Herbert Allen GILES ( - ) Genre(s): . Liaozhai Zhiyi (Liaozhai; Chinese: 聊齋誌異; Wade–Giles: Liao²chai¹ chi⁴yi⁴), called in English Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Pu Songling, comprising close to five hundred "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles, which serve to implicitly criticise societal problems then.