Research Catalog

Title

Strange tales from a Chinese studio / Pu Songling ; translated and edited by John Minford.

Author

Pu, Songling, 1640-1715

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Minford, John

Description

xxviii, 562 p. : ill., maps; 20 cm.

Summary

The strange tales of Pu Songling are exquisite minatures 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.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Liao zhai zhi yi. Selections. English
• Penguin classics

Alternative Title

Liao zhai zhi yi.

Subject

• Pu, Songling, 1640-1715 > Translations into English
• Short stories, Chinese > Translations into English
• China > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Short stories, Chinese – Translations into English.
• Fiction
• Short stories, Chinese
• Translations
• Fiction.
• Short stories, Chinese.
• Translations.
• Short stories.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Chinese.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Homunculus -- An otherwordly examination -- Living dead -- Spitting water -- Talking pupils -- The painted wall -- The troll -- Biting a ghost -- Catching a fox -- The monster in the buckwheat -- The haunted house -- Stealing a peach -- Growing pears -- The Taoist priest of Mount Lao -- The monk of Changqing -- The snake-charmer -- The wounded python -- The fornicating dog -- The god of hail -- The golden goblet -- Grace and pine -- A most exemplary monk -- Magical arts -- Wild dog -- Past lives -- Fox in the bottle -- Wailing ghosts -- Thumb and thimble -- Scorched moth and the Taoist -- Friendship beyond the grave -- Karmic debts -- Ritual cleansing -- The doctor god and the thief -- The painted skin -- A passion for snkaes -- The merchant's son -- A latter-day buddha -- Fox enchantment -- Eating stones -- The laughing girl -- The magic sword and the magic bag -- The devoted mouse -- An earthquake -- Snake Island -- Generosity -- The giant fish -- The giant turtle -- Making animals -- The little mandarin -- Dying together -- The alligator's revenge -- Sheep skin -- Sharp sword -- Lotus fragrance -- King of the nine mountains -- The fox of Fenzhou -- Silkworm -- Vocal virtuosity -- Fox as prophet -- This tranformation -- Fox control -- Dragon dormant -- Cut sleeve -- The girl from Nanking -- Twenty years a dream -- Mynah bird -- Lamp dog -- Doctor five hides -- Butterfly -- The black beast -- The stone bowl -- A fatal joke -- Raining money -- Twin lanterns -- Ghost foiled, fox put to rout -- Frog chorus -- Performing mice -- The clay scholar -- Flowers of illusion -- Dwarf -- Bird -- Princess lotus -- The girl in green -- Duck justice -- Big sneeze -- Steel shirt -- Fox trouble -- Lust punished by foxes -- Mountain City -- A cure for marital strife -- A prank -- Adultery and enlightenment -- Up his sleeve -- Silver above beauty -- The antique lute -- Waiting room for death -- Rouge -- The southern wutong-spirit -- Sunset -- The male concubine -- Coral -- Mutton fat and pig blood -- Dung-beetle dumplings -- Stir-fry.

ISBN

• 0140447407 (pbk.)
• 9780140447408 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 63185833
• SCSB-11164067

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library