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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

By: Pu Songling

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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

By: Pu Songling

The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.

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Penguin UK

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0141928522

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9780141928524

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

By: Pu Songling

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The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

By: Pu Songling

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time and includes a new foreword by Victoria Cass that properly introduces the book to both readers of Chinese literature and of hair-raising tales best read with the lights turned low on a quiet night. Some of the stories found in these pages include: The Tiger of Zhaocheng The Magic Sword Miss Lianziang, the Fox-Girl The Quarrelsome Brothers The Princess Lily A Rip Van Winkle The Resuscitated Corpse Taoist Miracles A Chinese Solomon

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462900739

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9781462900732

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Complete)

By: Songling Pu

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Complete)

By: Songling Pu

The public has, perhaps, a right to be made acquainted with the title under which I, an unknown writer, come forward as the translator of a difficult Chinese work. In the spring of 1867 I began the study of Chinese at H.B.M.ÕsLegation, Peking, under an implied promise, in a despatch from the then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that successful efforts would be rewarded by proportionately rapid advancement in the service of which I was a member. Then followed a long novitiate of utterly uninteresting and, indeed, most repellent labour,Ñinseparable, however, from the acquisition of this language, which throughout its early stages demands more from sheer memory than from the exercise of any other intellectual faculty. At length, in the spring of 1877, while acting as Vice-Consul at Canton, I commenced the translation of the work here offered to the English reader. For such a task I had flattered myself into the belief that I possessed two of the requisite qualifications: an accurate knowledge of the grammatical structure of the language, and an extensive insight into the manners, customs, superstitions, and general social life of the Chinese. I had been variously stationed at Peking, Tientsin, Takow, and Taiwan Fu (in Formosa), Ningpo, Hankow, Swatow, and Canton, from the latter of which I was transferredÑwhen my task was still only half finishedÑto Amoy. I had travelled beyond the Great Wall into Mongolia; and I had made the journey overland from Swatow to Canton, a distance of five hundred miles; besides which, in addition to my study of the language, my daily object in life had always been to familiarise myself as much as possible with Chinese sympathies and habits of thought. With these advantages, and by the interesting nature of the subject-matter, I hoped to be able on the one hand to arouse a somewhat deeper interest than is usually taken in the affairs of China; and, on the other, to correct at any rate some of the erroneous views, too frequently palmed off by inefficient and disingenuous workers, and too readily accepted as fact.Ê

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758

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Library of Alexandria

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1465583807

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9781465583802

Wailing Ghosts

By: Pu Songling

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Wailing Ghosts

By: Pu Songling

...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Pu Songling (1640-1715). Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is available in Penguin Classics.

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Penguin UK

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0141398175

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9780141398174

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2

By: Pu Songling

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Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2

By: Pu Songling

The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.

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Jain Publishing Company

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0895810433

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9780895810434

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

By: Pu Songling

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The classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

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Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves

By: Songling Huang,Shen Wang,Weibin Li,Qing Wang

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Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves

By: Songling Huang,Shen Wang,Weibin Li,Qing Wang

This book introduces the fundamental theory of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves, together with its applications. It includes the dispersion characteristics and matching theory of guided waves; the mechanism of production and theoretical model of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided waves; the effect mechanism between guided waves and defects; the simulation method for the entire process of electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave propagation; electromagnetic ultrasonic thickness measurement; pipeline axial guided wave defect detection; and electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave detection of gas pipeline cracks. This theory and findings on applications draw on the author’s intensive research over the past eight years. The book can be used for nondestructive testing technology and as an engineering reference work. The specific implementation of the electromagnetic ultrasonic guided wave system presented here will also be of value for other nondestructive test developers.

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Springer

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9811005648

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9789811005640

Strange Tales of Liaozhai

By: Songling Pu,Yunzhong Lu

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By: Songling Pu,Yunzhong Lu

Brief tales and sketches printed the first time in 1766. The subjects are encounters between human beings and supernatural creatures, immortals, fairies, flower-spirits, vampires and magic foxes.

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316

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Long River Press

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9620710274

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9789620710278

Book's by Songling Pu

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Complete)

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Complete)

Wailing Ghosts

Wailing Ghosts

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2

Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves

Electromagnetic Ultrasonic Guided Waves

Strange Tales of Liaozhai

Strange Tales of Liaozhai

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