Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, (Paperback)

from xuebi

An excellent selection of "weird tales" by the master of Chinese weird fiction. Since being first written, Pu Songling's Strange Tales have been the benchmark for this genre, and also the standard for Classical Chinese fiction. Some tales are short, but perfectly conjure up bizarre creatures and ...

from BayardUS

This collection of over one hundred stories was a fun and quick read for me, despite the fact that some of the story features get repetitive and few stories stood out from the herd. the introduction explains that the collection consists of two types of tales: one type is actual stories, with begi...

from rboyechko

The book contains a collection of a little over 100 tales from Pu Songling's original 500 , which is rather unfortunate, as I would love to read all of them. I was hooked from the very first tale and took every opportunity to read more. Granted, some tales are mere curiosities that I don't find p...

from

Boy, they weren't kidding. These are some strange tales! The introduction in my edition was helpful in putting me in a frame of mind so I wasn't just thinking “what on earth is this?!” It helped flesh out the setting of the lonely garden studio of a Chinese scholar. I appreciated the choices of t...

from stillatim

I've been reading a lot of "difficult" books recently, and a few short books that just weren't very good. Amid that pile, Pu's tales were a glorious reminder of why people enjoy telling stories, why people enjoy reading them, and how many different ways something can be interesting. Short of list...