Pu, Songling 1640-1715 creator Giles, Herbert Allen 1845-1935 text utu 2013 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 2)" by Pu Songling is a collection of Classical Chinese stories written over forty years from the late 1600s to early 1700s. Comprising nearly 500 tales of ghosts, foxes, and supernatural encounters, these stories blur the boundaries between the otherworldly and everyday reality. Rather than frightening readers, they explore passionate emotional entanglements between humans and spirits, often containing implicit critiques of society. The work has influenced generations of writers and remains celebrated as a pinnacle of Chinese supernatural literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 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 Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English PL Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43629 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43629 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134012.0 43629