Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

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• Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
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• Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
• Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out (Global Asias)
• Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)
• The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
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