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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

Songling Pu
Victoria Cass, Ph.D., Foreword
Herbert A. Giles, Translator
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
9780804841382
Format:
Paperback
Date Published:
10/10/2010
Number of Pages:
448
Length:
8
Width:
5.125
Weight:
17 oz
$18.95
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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.

Author Bio

Songling Pu (1640—1715) was an author during China's Qing Dynasty. He spent the bulk of his life working as a private tutor, during which time he gathered and re-wrote the stories published to great acclaim in this book.

Herbert A. Giles (1845—1935) was one of the most acclaimed sinologists of his era and the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge. He is one of the creators of the "Wade-Giles" system of romanization, the author of several Chinese-English dictionaries and translator of numerous classics.

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