TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pu,Songling
AU  - Giles,Herbert Allen
TI  - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 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 (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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43629
ER  -