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Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲 松 齡, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi). [1]
Pu Songling was a Chinese fiction writer whose Liaozhai zhiyi (1766; “Strange Stories from Liaozhai’s Studio”; Eng. trans. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories. Pu’s impressive collection of 431 tales of the unusual and supernatural was largely
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Liaozhai zhiyi, sometimes shortened to Liaozhai, known in English as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio, or literally Strange Tales from a Studio of Leisure, is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" [1] in the zhiguai and chuanqi ...
The Painted Skin. " The Painted Skin " ( Chinese: 畫皮; pinyin: Huàpí) is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Literary critics have recognised it as one of the best and best-known entries in Strange Tales; in particular, its textual detail and in-depth characterisation ...
Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio is the great masterpiece of short fiction of the Ch’ing era. The American scholar Allan Barr concluded that no really precise progression in ...
Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715), the author of the “Strange Tales from Liaozhai,” was a native of Zichuan County, in the Shandong Province. “Liaozhai” is the name given by the author to his private study room, where he composed his work. Pu Songling was born into an impoverished middle-class family.
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Pu Songling, born in 1640 and passing away in 1715, left an indelible mark on Chinese literature. His masterful storytelling skillfully blurs the lines between the supernatural and reality, offering readers a profound exploration of the human experience through the lens of the extraordinary. Pu Songling was born into a declining family of small ...
