| Description |
1 online resource (447 pages) |
| Contents |
Examination for the post of guardian angel -- Talking pupils -- Painted wall -- Planting a pear tree -- Taoist priest of Laoshan -- Buddhist priest of Changqing -- Marriage of the fox's daughter -- Miss Jiaonuo -- Magical arts -- Joining the immortals -- Fighting quails -- Painted skin -- Trader's son -- Judge Lu -- Miss Yingning; or, the laughing girl -- Magic sword -- Shuimang plant -- Little Zhu -- Miss Quarta Hu -- Mr. Zhu, the considerate husband -- Magnanimous girl -- Boon-companion -- Miss Lianxiang, the fox-girl -- Miss Abao; or, perseverance rewarded -- Ren Xiu -- Lost brother -- Three genii -- Singing frogs -- Performing mice -- Tiger of Zhaocheng -- Dwarf -- Xiangru's misfortuunes -- Zhang,s transformation -- Taoist priest -- Fight with the foxes -- King -- Engaged to a nun -- Young lady of lake Dongting -- Man who was changed into a crow -- Flower-nymphs -- Danan in search of his father -- Wonderful stone -- Quarrelsome brothers -- Young gentleman who couldn't spell -- Tiger guest -- Sisters -- Foreign priests -- Self-punished murderer -- Master thief -- Flood -- Death by laughing -- Playing at hanging -- Rat wife -- Man who was thrown down a well -- Virtuous daughter-in-law -- Dr. Zeng's dream -- Country of the cannibals -- Foot-ball on Lake Dongting -- Thunder God -- Gambler's talisman -- Husband punished -- Marriage lottery -- Luocha Country and the Sea market -- Fighting cricket -- Taking revenge -- Tipsy turtle -- Magic path -- Faithless widow -- Princess of Lake Dongting -- Princess Lily -- Donkey's revenge -- Wolf dream -- Unjust sentence -- Rip Van Winkle -- Three states of existence -- In the infernal regions -- Singular case of ophthalmia -- Zhou Kechang and his ghost -- Spirits of Lake Boyang -- Stream of cash -- Injustice of heaven -- Sea-serpent -- Magic mirror -- Courage tested -- Disembodied friend -- Cloth merchant -- Strange companion -- Spiritualistic séances -- Mysterious head -- Spirit of the hills -- Ingratitude punished -- Smelling essays -- His father's ghost -- Boat-girl bride -- Two grides -- Supernatural wife -- Bribery and corruption -- Chinese Jonah -- Zhang Buliang -- Dutch carpet -- Carrying a corpse -- Taoist devotee -- Justice for rebels -- Theft of the peach -- Killing a serpent -- Resuscitated corpse -- Fisherman and his friend -- Priest's warning -- Metempsychosis -- Forty strings of cash -- Saving life -- Salt smuggler -- Collection subscriptions -- Taoist miracles -- Arrival of Buddhist priests -- Stolen eyes -- Invisible priest -- Censor in purgatory -- Mr. Willow and the locusts -- Mr. Dong; or, virtue rewarded -- Dead priest -- Flying cow -- "Mirror and listen" trick -- Cattle plague -- Marriage of the virgin goddess -- Wine insect -- Faithful dog -- Earthquake -- Making animals -- Cruelty avenged -- Weiqi devil -- Fortune-hunter punished -- Life prolonged -- Clay image -- Dishonesty punished -- Mad priest -- Feasting the ruler of purgatory -- Picture horse -- Butterfly's revenge -- Doctor -- Snow in Summer -- Planchette -- Friendship with foxes -- Great rat -- Wolves -- Singular verdict -- Grateful dog -- Great test -- Alchemist -- Raising the dead -- Fengshui -- Lingering death -- Dreaming honors -- She-wolf and the herd-boys -- Adulteration punished -- Chinese Solomon -- Rukh -- Faithful gander -- Elephants and the lion -- Hidden treasure -- Boatmen of Laolong -- Pious surgeon -- Another Solomon -- Incorrupt official |
| Summary |
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural tales compiled by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. Full of stories of ghosts, magic, vampirism and other things bizarre and fantastic, this classic of Chinese literature--and of supernatural tales in general--has been revised and updated, and includes pinyin for the first time. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is for anyone who loves hair-raising stories best read with the lights turned low on a dark and stormy night |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English, ranslated from the Chinese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English
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Manners and customs
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Short stories, Chinese
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935, translator.
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Cass, Victoria Baldwin, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781462900732 |
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1462900739 |
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