Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale
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Author(s)Judith T. Zeitlin
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0804729689
ISBN-139780804729680
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,496,881
CategoryPaperback
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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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