Description: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio : Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural, Paperback by Songling, Pu; Giles, Herbert A. (TRN); Cass, Victoria (FRW), ISBN 0804849080, ISBN-13 9780804849081, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 Hearns 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 th 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
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Book Title: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio : Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: Asian / Chinese, Horror, Short Stories (Single Author), Ghost
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 15 oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Pu Songling
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
