Strange Tales From Liaozhai Vol 5

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895810492
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 5 of 6.

Author : Pu Songling
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Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai--Volume 5 written by Pu Songling and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is volume 5 of 6.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895810433
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.

Author : Yueh Tung
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0892649097
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tower of Myriad Mirrors written by Yueh Tung and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West. The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar. Tung picks up the slapstick of the original tale and overlays it with Buddhist theory and bitter satire of the Ming government’s capitulation to the Manchus. After a nod to Journey’s storyteller format, Tung carries Monkey’s quest into an evocation of shifting psychological states rarely found in premodern fiction. An important though relatively unknown link in the development of the Chinese novel, and a window into late Ming intellectual history, The Tower of Myriad Mirrors further rewards by being a wonderful read.

Author : Judith T. Zeitlin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804729689
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historian of the Strange written by Judith T. Zeitlin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

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ISBN 13 : 9789810511692
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales of Liaozhai written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895810018
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 1 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the first of 6 volumes.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 089581045X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subjects of Pu Songling's short story collection include supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhism and Daoism, and Chinese folklore"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895810476
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 4 written by Pu Songling and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales.This is volume 4 of 6.

Author : Pu Songling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410219046
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio written by Pu Songling and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written. Living under a feudal monarchy, the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters. Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal superstition and fatalism. The stories in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language, but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later novels and operas.