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Strange Tales from a Modern Chinese Studio
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Strange Tales from a Modern Chinese Studio follows in the spirit (狐狸精?) of Pu Songling's Qing Dynasty classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (聊齋誌異).The Liaozhai, which has entertained Chinese readers for over three centuries, is an eclectic gathering of stories full of high officials and peasants, traders and monks, monsters and ghosts, maidens and scholars, and no lack of monster-like scholars and maiden-like ghosts. Many of the stories recorded by Pu Songling in the Liaozhai are thought to date back to time of the 17th century Ming-Qing transition, a time of change and upheaval in the Chinese world.Today's China is witnessing economic and social change on a scale perhaps unriveled in human history. During such chaotic times, rumor and hearsay often become intertwined with the truth, giving rise to a product, which more often than not enters the realm of the strange.
In the words of the Historian of the Strange himself
Of tales told
I have made a book
With time
And my love of hoarding
The matter sent me by friends
From the four corners
Has grown into a pile
-Pu Songling, from the preface to his Strange Tales
- Added on: Mar 15th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Yang Ning Jie
- Listed in: Travel News & Media
- Tags: china Chinese china travel china news ancient china china stories
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