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 | #53382 in Books |  Pu Songling |  2006-10-31 |  2006-10-31 | Original language:Chinese | PDF # 1 |  7.78 x1.04 x5.09l,.92 | File Name: 0140447407 | 608 pages

 | Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio


||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A charming easy reading full of surprises|By miriam ben malka|This classical book is, first of all, a feast to the eyes, having over a hundred pictures, one for each tale, describing its content in the best Chinese tradition, depicting typical gardens with gnarled oak-trees, plum-blossoms, castles with curved roofs, and beautiful and handsome people wearing all kinds of ornate|About the Author|PU SONGLING (1645-1715) was a poor, undistinguished scholar who had an uneventful life. He took the lowest degree, the bachelor's, before he was twenty, but ten years later, he still had not succeeded in passing the second, the master's

Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction

With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birt...


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