| Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Contributor(s): Giles, Herbert (Translator), Kelvin, Vincent (Editor), Pu, Song-Ling (Author) |
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ISBN: 1507743084 ISBN-13: 9781507743089 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $22.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Ghost |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.64 lbs) 514 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Stories 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 Giles translation converts the work to Pinyin for the first time 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. |
