Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selection), volume 1

By Pu Songling

Book Id: WPLBN0002951585
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File Size: 157.56 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selection), volume 1
Author:	Pu Songling
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fairy tales
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selection), volume 1
Historic Publication Date:	1880
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Songling, B. P., & Sung-Ling, P. (1880). Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selection), volume 1. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai) is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. He borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The cast of characters includes vixen spirits, ghosts, scholars, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the stories. Ghosts and spirits are often bold and trustworthy, while humans are on the other hand weak, indecisive and easily manipulated, reflecting the author's own disillusionment with his society. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fairy tales