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	Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liaozhai Zhiyi (traditional characters: 聊齋誌異; simplified characters: 聊斋志异; "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a conflation of 431 supernatural tales written by Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640 – 1715) during the early Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911).
		Written in classical Chinese (wenyan or guwen), it was first circulated in manuscript form before it was published posthumously by Pu's grandson in 1740.
		Pu borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, highly colorful stories where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is successively blurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strange_Stories_from_a_Chinese_Studio (265 words)

	Pu Songling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade-Giles: P'u Sung-ling) (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was a ethnic Mongol Chinese writer.
		He notably wrote the fiction Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1679) during the Qing dynasty.
		The chinese ghost story is, to some extend, different from those of Western ghost stories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pu_Songling (325 words)

	Takao Club - Chinese Fox Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many of the stories in his Liaozhai collection are retellings of old tales from the Tang dynasty and earlier: Pu Song-ling was a drinker and a listener.
		In this story the fox-spirit Hsiao-tsui marries the idiot son of the man who had long before protected her fox body from lightning.
		Herbert A Giles (translator), 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1926.
	takaoclub.com /foxmyths/chinese_fox_myths.htm (2010 words)

	Jordan: Classical Chinese Novels
		Chinese popular culture, including popular religion, involves the ideas that ordinary people hold about a wide range of topics, ideas that were always influenced by the media of theatricals and storytelling.
		The Jì Gōng stories inspired an important cult of this figure that has taken off in the XXth century, when he became the possessing presence for many spirit mediums, and a major figure in the pantheons of some sectarian societies, as well as the object of various television and movie series.
		Herbert A. Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~dkjordan/chin/hbnovels-u.html (2188 words)

	Global Chinese Language And Culture Center Online_Story
		For instance in one story entitled "dreaming of wolf" and old man dreams that his son who is an official is a man-eating tiger.
		In another story a crow of scholars who failed a civil examination crowed the courtyard of the prince of hell.
		These stories praise young men and women who struggle to break through the bonds of tradition and make their own marriage choices.
	edu.ocac.gov.tw /culture/chinese/CULTUREENGLISH/Story/Estory0402_23.htm (468 words)

	Search Results for matrimony - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chinese fiction writer whose Liaozhai zhiyi (1766; “Strange Stories from Liaozhai's Studio”; Eng.
		Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories.
		In the Roman Catholic Church the institution of holy matrimony was raised to the level of a sacrament because it was assigned a divine origin and made an indissoluble union typifying the union of...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=matrimony&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (468 words)

	Criticism: Familiarity of the Strange: Japan's Gothic Tradition
		As Lu Xun observed, most stories of the period were so brief and absurd that they lost plausibility with modern readers, but the spirits in Liaozhai seem real, intensifying the proto-Gothic thrill of horror.
		The story continues to combine graphic scenes of violence (Wang's heart is torn out by the beast) with a fantastic restoration, symbolizing his wife's love and forgiveness.
		Chinese tales and stories are, nonetheless, important sources for East Asian Gothic fiction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_42/ai_63819091/pg_2 (1244 words)

	ipedia.com: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Liaozhai Zhiyi is a conflation of 431 supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty.
		Written in classical Chinese, it was first circulated in manuscript form before it was pu...
		Written in classical Chinese (wanyan or guwen), it was first circulated in manuscript form before it was published posthumously by his grandson in 1740.
	www.ipedia.com /strange_stories_from_a_chinese_studio.html (309 words)

	Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The borderland between normal and strange, reality and illusion, dream and awakening, life and death, are herein charted, and the lands to either side found not to be distinct, but rather to bleed together at their edges.
		The line between man and beast is blurred, so that a man may become a tiger because of his predatory nature, while a tiger may become like a son to a wronged woman.
		As each story unfolds, the territory becomes further developed, our map becomes clearer, and the strange is found not without ourselves, but within.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/stories/liaozhai.html (479 words)

	Prose fiction (from Chinese literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		P'u Sung-ling continued the prose romance tradition by writing in ku-wen (“classical language”) a series of 431 charming stories of the uncanny and the supernatural entitled Liao-chai chih-i (1766; “Strange Stories from the Liao-chai Studio”; Eng.
		The British officer known as Chinese Gordon was famous for his romantic adventures in Asian countries and for his dramatic death at the siege of Khartoum.
		These chinese figures representing the year of one's birth are from the Taung Dynasty.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-61298 (732 words)

	Chinese literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦, also known as A Dream of Red Mansions or The Story of the Stone and The Chronicles of the Stone (石头记, Shítóu Jì), by 曹雪芹 Cáo Xuěqín
		Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (聊斋志异), by 蒲松齡 Pú Sōnglíng.
		Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan or The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_literature (405 words)

	Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Liaozhai Zhiyi (traditional characters: 聊齋誌異; simplified characters: 聊斋志异; "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a conflation of 431 supernatural tales written by Pu Songling 蒲松齡; (1640 – 1715) during the early Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911).
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Liaozhai_Zhiyi (282 words)

	The Chinese Classic Novel (Rexroth)
		In the Chinese novel, as in the gardens of Italy where the nightingale sings in the blooming pomegranate, the odor of the night soil of ten thousand years is never out of your nose.
		It is the story of an idle scholar and gentleman and his women.
		It is the Chinese plot of plots: “When women rule, the house decays.” Again, it is exactly the opposite: a glorification of the hidden matriarchy at the heart of Chinese society.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/chinesenovels.htm (2531 words)

	Calvin College - Japanese and Chinese Language Programs
		Another 300 Chinese "characters" will be introduced for reading and writing and as a medium for gaining insight into Chinese culture.
		Further study of basic Chinese grammar and continued study of the Chinese writing system, with equal emphasis on speaking and reading the language.
		In addition to their textbook, students also read a book of famous stories about the supernatural from the 1600's, entitled "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", as well as a book of famous Chinese jokes, entitled "Laughing in Chinese".
	www.calvin.edu /academic/chinese/chin_courses.htm (505 words)

	Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Magical Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yu sat with the light in his hand till morning, when he awaked to the fact that all these devils had been sent by the necromancer in order to kill him, and so evidence his own magical power.
		The next day, after having told the story far and wide, he went with some others to the place where the necromancer had his stall; but the latter, seeing them coming, vanished in the twinkling of an eye.
		Thereupon they saw his head and face all smeared over with blood, his eyes glaring like a devil's; and at once seizing him, they handed him over to the authorities, by whom he was put to death.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/stories/pu08.html (1020 words)

	Kitsune - The Japanese fox
		They even did what their Chinese sisters failed to do: They were accepted as part of the official religion.
		Giles, Herbert A. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
		The kitsune cub Shippou is a main character, who joins the story in a plot reminiscent of the classic Genkuro story.
	academia.issendai.com /fox-japanese.shtml (1112 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > A Touch of Zen > Printer Friendly
		The story, while essentially a simple nice adventure tale, is filled with little details, working on many levels and moods.
		The first half of the film plays like a comedic mystery- the comedy supplied by the relationship between Ku and his henpecking mother, the mystery from Miss Yang and the generals secret and why they are being pursued.
		The story is split into two parts and the running time around 180 mins.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=5241 (1152 words)

	Yale Mirror Series (reading Chinese)
		Three hundred additional Chinese characters are introduced in both complex and simplified forms, within the framework of a story about a Chinese student's journey to Beijing.
		The charming children's story popularized by the famous modern writer Lao She is here retold in simpler Chinese.
		This text presumes completion of Read Chinese I and II and is meant to be read along with Read Chinese, Book III, and presents two famous mythical stories: The Story of Hou Yi, the Archer and The Story of the White Snake.
	www.yale.edu /fep/catalog/mirror2.html (1229 words)

	Ghost of the Mirror
		In Touch he of course falls in love with the female warrior, played by Hsu Feng, and does her bidding while here he falls in love with a ghost and gives in to her completely.
		Parts of Ghost of the Mirror also reminded me of Tsui Hark’s A Chinese Ghost Story - an innocent scholar, a beautiful female ghost, an evil androgynous presence that forces her to perform evil deeds, the man and ghost fall in love and have to fight for the ghost’s soul.
		Perhaps Ghost of the Mirror was derived from the same source as A Chinese Ghost Story — Pu-Sing Ling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio which had already been used for earlier supernatural film tales.
	www.brns.com /pages4/blin9.html (719 words)

	China Stamps - 2001-7 - Scott 3098-102 - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio---One of China's Famous Classical ...
		These strange stories by Pu Songling are rich in imagination.
		While talking about ghosts, these stories criticize the harsh ways of the society and eulogize the noble moral characters in order to educate the people.
		Reading the story people do not know whether to laugh or cry.
	www.xabusiness.com /china-stamps-2001/2001-7.htm (250 words)

	Hong Kong Digital #184a: Enchanting Shadow
		The film that inspired A CHINESE GHOST STORY, this Li Han-hsiang effort is similar in some regards but also very much its own entity.
		Xiaoqian warns that her demonic mistress has sworn to take Ning's life, and she begs him to help her reincarnate and, thus, be free of the old woman's domination.
		The lead performances are laudable and Betty Loh easily succeeds at garnering the viewer's empathy for her plight as the unwilling tool of an evil as base and ugly as Xiaoqian is innocent and sweet.
	www.dighkmovies.com /v3/184/184a.html (738 words)

	the Indian rope trick
		It seems likely that someone at the Tribune had a copy of a little story entitled "Theft of the Peach," which appears in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715).
		P'u tells the story of this "strange trick" as if he were an eyewitness "as a little boy." He also notes that he had subsequently heard that the trick could be done "by the White Lily sect," a secret society in China whose origin dates to the fourteenth century.
		The Chinese may have used mirrors but the story most likely emerged from what they were smoking.
	skepdic.com /indianrope.html (1015 words)

	Traditional Chinese Tales: An Interactive Reader for Intermediate Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The linguistic simplification of the original stories and furnishing reading support materials are pedagogically justified and necessary for second-language learners of Chinese at the intermediate level.
		While traditional Chinese tales are used, the pedagogical objective of the course pack is not to teach the learner how to read traditional Chinese.
		Each story or each lesson that covers a story is fully self-contained and independent both in terms of content and grammatical sequencing or difficulty levels of various stories or lessons.
	www.calico.org /CALICO_Review/review/chinesetales00.htm (2907 words)

	Yangzi River Cruise: Fengdu Ghost City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Situated on the northern bank of the river between Zhongxian and Fuling, the city was once depicted as the 'City of Ghosts' in two ancient Chinese classic works - Monkey King and Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
		In one of Chinese classical legendary, they were transformed into two guardians with supernatural strength that Guardian Heng could roar or bellow a kind of dazzling light and Han a kind of yellow wind.
		A dead who had misbehaved when he was alive would be jolted down by those light and wind.
	www.yangtzerivertour.com /amaze_yangtze/attraction/city/fengdu.htm (434 words)

	Yale Mirror Series (spoken Chinese)
		This brand-new intermediate level textbook for modern Chinese, in two volumes, is designed for those studying on their own or for class use.
		With emphasis on communication in the spoken language, all lessons include multiple dialogues in both forms of the character and pinyin, followed by notes, vocabulary and extensive, creative and interactive sets of exercises.
		Presents the story of Chinese history from earliest times to the twentieth century.
	www.yale.edu /fep/catalog/mirror1.html (987 words)

	Basho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Basho demanded that a haiku must contain both a perception pf some eternal truth and an element of contemporaneity.
		Chinese poet who wrote under the title 'Liao-chai chih-i' (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) 431 charming stories of the supernatural.
		He also wrote the longest Chinese novel, 'Hsing shih yin yuan', describing the unhappy marriage of a shrew and her henpicked husband.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/literature_n2/4For.html (262 words)

	Incidental Pieces
		My writing studio, my dear little perch, is in the loft of a gable roofed barn we built on our property a couple of years ago.
		But, if a writer is willing to truly know their characters and the story well, going back to the well again and again, the payoff is, in the end, something that can't help but be real.
		It's an honest, everlastinggobstopper of a story about Franzen's need for the imagined world of Charlie Brown to act as his touchstone while the relationship between his older brother and his parents fell apart.
	amimckay.blogspot.com (14677 words)

	Tsai Jui-yueh, Matriarch of Taiwan Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In order to collect materials about traditional Chinese dance, she studied the use of colored ribbons, long sleeves and swordplay in Chinese opera with Su Sheng-shih and Ha Yuan-chang.
		For Tsai, nearing 60, this ballet based on the Qing dynasty work Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was the high point of her creative life.
		But after Ma Sicong applied to a public agency for assistance, the original control that the China Academy had over the production kept getting reduced, and eventually, with the justification that "a private group isn't big enough to handle such a large-scale performance," control over the performance was given to a junior college dance department.
	home.sina.com /sinorama/0498/english/3_12.html (238 words)

	Criticism: Familiarity of the Strange: Japan's Gothic Tradition
		(12.) In both Chinese and Japanese folklore it is usually women--in touch with the powers of nature--who turn into animals and seduce or kill men.
		Another excellent translation (from which I borrow the English titles of individual stories) is Leon M. Zolbrod's Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1974).
		This story, renamed "The Black Hair," along with Hearn adaptations "The Woman of the Snow," "Hoichi the Earless," and "In a Cup of Tea" comprise Kobayashi Masaki's film Kaidan (1965).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_42/ai_63819091/pg_8 (1240 words)

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