Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Author: Pu Songling
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: New Curriculum Standard Reading Series for Compulsory Education. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling, a Qing Dynasty novelist. His courtesy name was Liuxian, and his sobriquet was Jianchen. He was also known as the Willow Spring Resident. Born in Zibo, Shandong Province, he gained fame in his hometown for his poetry and prose from a young age. He extensively collected strange and eerie stories, upon which he wrote the short story collection Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Through tales of ghosts and demons, he satirized the social realities of his time. On a cold night, apart from the mournful songs of autumn insects and the shadows of wild ducks on icy ponds, who else would emit such a deep and sorrowful cry in this desolate night?