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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio »
Authors: Pu Songling, John Minford (Translator), John Minford
ISBN-13: 9780140447408, ISBN-10: 0140447407
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Pu Songling
Pu Songling (1640-1715) was one of the most celebrated Chinese writers from the Qing dynasty.
John Minford is dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong. He has published widely on Chinese literature and translated numerous works, including the Penguin Classics edition of Sun-tzu's The Art of War.
Book Synopsis
Exquisite Chinese stories of the supernatural
Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford's superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling's classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this collection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. In his tales of shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings, and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
• Includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading, glossary, notes, and illustrations
Table of Contents
| 1 | Homunculus | 3 |
| 2 | An otherworldly examination | 6 |
| 3 | Living dead | 10 |
| 4 | Spitting water | 15 |
| 5 | Talking pupils | 18 |
| 6 | The painted wall | 23 |
| 7 | The troll | 28 |
| 8 | Biting a ghost | 31 |
| 9 | Catching a fox | 34 |
| 10 | The monster in the buckwheat | 37 |
| 11 | The haunted house | 40 |
| 12 | Stealing a peach | 43 |
| 13 | Growing pears | 47 |
| 14 | The Taoist priest of Mount Lao | 50 |
| 15 | The monk of Changqing | 55 |
| 16 | The snake-charmer | 59 |
| 17 | The wounded python | 64 |
| 18 | The fornicating dog | 66 |
| 19 | The god of hail | 67 |
| 20 | The golden goblet | 70 |
| 21 | Grace and pine | 76 |
| 22 | A most exemplary monk | 87 |
| 23 | Magical arts | 90 |
| 24 | Wild dog | 95 |
| 25 | Past lives | 98 |
| 26 | Fox in the bottle | 102 |
| 27 | Wailing ghosts | 104 |
| 28 | Thumb and thimble | 107 |
| 29 | Scorched moth the Taoist | 109 |
| 30 | Friendship beyond the grave | 112 |
| 31 | Karmic debts | 118 |
| 32 | Ritual cleansing | 121 |
| 33 | The door god and the thief | 124 |
| 34 | The painted skin | 126 |
| 35 | The merchant's son | 133 |
| 36 | A passion for snakes | 141 |
| 37 | A latter-day Buddha | 142 |
| 38 | Fox enchantment | 143 |
| 39 | Eating stones | 150 |
| 40 | The laughing girl | 152 |
| 41 | The magic sword and the magic bag | 168 |
| 42 | The devoted mouse | 180 |
| 43 | An earthquake | 182 |
| 44 | Snake island | 185 |
| 45 | Generosity | 189 |
| 46 | The giant fish | 193 |
| 47 | The giant turtle | 194 |
| 48 | Making animals | 197 |
| 49 | The little Mandarin | 200 |
| 50 | Dying together | 202 |
| 51 | The alligator's revenge | 205 |
| 52 | Sheep skin | 206 |
| 53 | Sharp sword | 209 |
| 54 | Lotus fragrance | 211 |
| 55 | King of the nine mountains | 229 |
| 56 | The fox of Fenzhou | 235 |
| 57 | Silkworm | 238 |
| 58 | Vocal virtuosity | 250 |
| 59 | Fox as prophet | 254 |
| 60 | This transformation | 258 |
| 61 | Fox control | 261 |
| 62 | Dragon dormant | 264 |
| 63 | Cut sleeve | 266 |
| 64 | The girl from Nanking | 277 |
| 65 | Twenty years a dream | 280 |
| 66 | Mynah bird | 290 |
| 67 | Lamp dog | 293 |
| 68 | Doctor five hides | 296 |
| 69 | Butterfly | 298 |
| 70 | The black beast | 304 |
| 71 | The stone bowl | 306 |
| 72 | A fatal joke | 311 |
| 73 | Raining money | 313 |
| 74 | Twin lanterns | 316 |
| 75 | Ghost foiled, fox put to rout | 320 |
| 76 | Frog chorus | 324 |
| 77 | Performing mice | 326 |
| 78 | The clay scholar | 328 |
| 79 | Flowers of illusion | 331 |
| 80 | Dwarf | 336 |
| 81 | Bird | 338 |
| 82 | Princess lotus | 348 |
| 83 | The girl in green | 356 |
| 84 | Duck justice | 360 |
| 85 | Big sneeze | 362 |
| 86 | Steel shirt | 364 |
| 87 | Fox trouble | 366 |
| 88 | Lust punished by foxes | 370 |
| 89 | Mountain city | 373 |
| 90 | A cure for marital strife | 376 |
| 91 | A prank | 381 |
| 92 | Adultery and enlightenment | 383 |
| 93 | Up his sleeve | 387 |
| 94 | Silver above beauty | 397 |
| 95 | The antique lute | 399 |
| 96 | Waiting room for death | 405 |
| 97 | Rouge | 408 |
| 98 | The Southern Wutong-spirit | 421 |
| 99 | Sunset | 427 |
| 100 | The male concubine | 434 |
| 101 | Coral | 436 |
| 102 | Mutton fat and pig blood | 446 |
| 103 | Dung-beetle dumplings | 449 |
| 104 | Stir-fry | 452 |
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