Strange Tales From Liaozhai

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780895810472

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4 by Pu Songling Pdf

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 4 of 6.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810434

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2 by Pu Songling Pdf

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 the second of 6 volumes.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810014

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1 by Pu Songling Pdf

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 the first of 6 volumes.

Author : Yueh Tung,Tung Yueh
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780892641420

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The Tower of Myriad Mirrors by Yueh Tung,Tung Yueh Pdf

China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Ghost stories, Chinese
ISBN : 1514274183

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 9810511779

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Strange Tales of Liaozhai by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pu Songlin
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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“Liaozhai” 聊斋志异; Strange Tales from a Chinese Lonely Studio (Complete Translation) by Pu Songlin Pdf

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 : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804729680

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Historian of the Strange by Judith T. Zeitlin Pdf

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1198403319

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai--Volume 5 by Pu Songling Pdf

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 : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ghost stories, Chinese
ISBN : 7800655997

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Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio by Songling Pu Pdf

Author : Songling Pu
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000352372

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Strange Tales of Liaozhai by Songling Pu Pdf

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810519

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6 by Pu Songling Pdf

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 the sixth of 6 volumes.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780895810458

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3 by Pu Songling Pdf

"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.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514207664

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Strange Stories of a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling Pdf

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 : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928524

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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling Pdf

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.