Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780804841382 (0804841381)
ASIN: 804841381
Publish date: October 10th 2010
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Fairy Tales,
Asian Literature,
Short Stories,
China,
Folklore,
18th Century,
Chinese Literature
AcknowledgementsIntroductionNote on the Text, Translation and IllustrationsNote on Names and Pronunciation--Homunculus--An Otherworldly Examination--Living Dead--Spitting Water--Talking Pupils--The Painted Wall--The Troll--Biting a Ghost--Catching a Fox--The Monster in the Buckwheat--The Haunted Hou...
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