โ Scribed by Songling,Pu
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Foreword; Introduction; Author's Own Record; 1. Examination for the Post of Guardian Ange; 2. Th e Talking Pupils; 3. The Painted Wall; 4. Planting a Pear Tree; 5. The Taoist Priest of Laoshan; 6. The Buddhist Priest of Changqing; 7. The Marriage of the Fox's Daughter; 8. Miss Jiaonuo; 9. Magical Arts; 10. Joining the Immortals; 11. The Fighting Quails; 12. The Painted Skin; 13. The Trader's Son; 14. Judge Lu; 15. Miss Yingning; or, The Laughing Girl; 16. The Magic Sword; 17. The Shuimang Plant; 18. Little Zhu; 19. Miss Quarta Hu; 20. Mr. Zhu, the Considerate Husband.;Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural tales compiled by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. Full of stories of ghosts, magic, vampirism and other things bizarre and fantastic, this classic of Chinese literature--and of supernatural tales in general--has been revised and updated, and includes pinyin for the first time. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is for anyone who loves hair-raising stories best read with the lights turned low on a dark and stormy night.
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