TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pu,Songling
AU  - Giles,Herbert Allen
TI  - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)
AV  - PL 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
KW  - Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio; Release date is 2013-09-03; Produced by obstobst, Henry Flower and the Online
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N2  - "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)" by Pu Songling is a collection of Classical Chinese stories written between the early 1670s and early 1700s. Comprising nearly five hundred "marvel tales" featuring ghosts, foxes, and supernatural beings, these stories blur the boundaries between the otherworldly and everyday reality. Rather than frightening readers, they explore passionate emotional entanglements through rich romanticism and philosophical depth. Critics have praised the work's allegorical nature and literary craftsmanship, with some viewing it as implicit social criticism of Qing dynasty society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43627
ER  -