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Author : Pu Sung-Ling,Songling Pu
Publisher : Heian International
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002318538
Short stories which embrace tales of Taoist devilry and magic, the supernatural world and scenes of Chinese life.
Author : Pu Songlin
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Liaozhai Zhiyi (Liaozhai; Chinese: 聊齋, or 聊齋誌異), called in English Strange Tales from a Chinese Lonely 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 issues then. Dating back to the Qing dynasty, its earliest publication date is given as 1740. Since then, many of the critically lauded stories have been adapted for other media such as film and television. The main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals and demons, but the author focused on the everyday life of commoners. He used the supernatural and the unexplainable to illustrate his ideas of society and government. He criticized the corruption and injustice in society and sympathized with the poor. The book is complete translation of all volumes (Vol. 1 to 12) of Liaozhai.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462900732
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and of hair-raising tales best read with the lights turned low on a quiet night. Some of the stories found in these pages include: The Tiger of Zhaocheng The Magic Sword Miss Lianziang, the Fox-Girl The Quarrelsome Brothers The Princess Lily A Rip Van Winkle The Resuscitated Corpse Taoist Miracles A Chinese Solomon
Author : Sung-ling Pu,Songling Pu,Pu Sung-Ling
Publisher : Federal Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043328389
Strange tales of Taoist devilry and magic combine with scenes of Chinese life.
Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479516452
Song Sun likes to talk but never listens. After talking too much to a stranger, Song Sun accidentally gives away the Chinese secret of silkmaking. Will Song Sun be able to save the secret?
Author : Pu Sung-Ling
Publisher : Appleby Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781445590875
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Yan Ge
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612199108
A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021 "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington Post From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast… In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Chinese fiction
ISBN : 1420948857
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928524
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Ghost stories, Chinese
ISBN : 1514274183
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (also Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai) is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling in Classical Chinese during the early Qing dynasty. The stories differ broadly in length, with the shortest under a page long. Many are classified as Chuanqi, or Zhiguai, sometimes translated as "marvel tales", that is, stories written in classical Chinese starting in the Tang dynasty. Pu borrows from a tradition of oral storytelling where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The stories are filled with magical foxes, ghosts, scholars, jiangshi, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. --Wikicommons
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810496
The 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 volume 5 of 6.
Author : Songling Pu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B15140
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420948849
Written during the early Qing Dynasty, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales by Chinese author Pu Songling. The work, which was published posthumously sometime between 1740 and 1766, is comprised of stories varying in length. While the main characters of this book apparently are ghosts, foxes, immortals and demons, Pu Songling is more focused on the real life of commoners. Four main themes run throughout the book. The first is the author's complaint with the existing feudal system, which he finds to be unjust and skewed towards the elite. Secondly the author is concerned with the corruption that exists in the Imperial examination system. Thirdly the author shows his admiration of pure, faithful love between poor scholars and powerless women. And lastly is the overarching theme of morality for which Pu Songling intended "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" to be instructive towards bettering. This work of classical Chinese literature is translated here by Herbert A. Giles.
Author : Xiping Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811679360
This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to East Asian countries or regions very early on; furthermore, after the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese “knowhow” and ideas increasingly made inroads into the West. In particular, the translation of and research on Chinese classics around the world have enabled Chinese culture to take root and blossom on an unprecedented scale. In addition to offering a valuable resource for readers interested in culture, the social sciences, and philosophy, the book blazes new trails for the study of ancient Chinese culture.
Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810458
"The subjects of Pu Songling's short story collection include supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhism and Daoism, and Chinese folklore"--Provided by publisher.
