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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

work by Pu Songling
Also known as: “Liaozhai zhiyi”
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  • Scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms
    Chinese literature
    / Prose fiction

    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio). This collection, completed in 1679, was reminiscent of the early literary tale tradition, for it contained several Tang stories retold with embellishments and minor changes to delineate the characters more realistically and to make the plots more probable. Such…

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    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio). This collection, completed in 1679, was reminiscent of the early literary tale tradition, for it contained several Tang stories retold with embellishments and minor changes to delineate the characters more realistically and to make the plots more probable. Such…

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  • Pu Songling

    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories.

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    Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories.

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