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The Little Mandarin [in, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Translated and Edited by John Minford] (Penguin Classics).
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Author: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu SonglingPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141928522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection 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 birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu SonglingPublisher: ePenguin
ISBN: 9780140447408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection 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 birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu SonglingPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140447408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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 birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Author: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Author: Sung-ling P'uPublisher:
ISBN: 1421248557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by T. Werner Laurie Ltd. in London, 1916.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu SonglingPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 9780804841382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 Hearn's 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 the book 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
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu Pu SonglingPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512254877
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume II" from Pu Songling. Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (1641-1715).
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu Pu SonglingPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512254693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume I" from Pu Songling. Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (1641-1715).
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Author: Herbert A. GilesPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331740141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Excerpt from Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio: Translated and Annotated I7 I have hitherto failed in all attempts to identify the particular wgter here intended. The phrase is used by the poet Li T'ai-po and ot ers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.