TY - BOOK AU - Pu,Songling TI - 聊齋志異 AV - PL PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, Chinese KW - China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio; Release date is 2016-04-22; Produced by Chow Chih-Han; Original publication data not identified N2 - "聊齋志異" by Songling Pu is a collection of Classical Chinese stories written between the early 1670s and early 1700s. Comprising nearly 500 "marvel tales," this work blurs boundaries between supernatural and everyday reality, exploring passionate emotional entanglement through stories of ghosts, foxes, and spirits. Written over forty years, it circulated in manuscript form among friends before its first publication in 1766. Critics have praised its allegorical depth, literary technique, and romantic style, establishing it as the most acclaimed Chinese supernatural tales collection of its era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51828 ER -