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Historian of the Strange : Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale / Judith T. Zeitlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeitlin, Judith T., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pu, Songling 1640-1715.
- Pu, Songling.
- Chinese fiction.
- Qing Dynasty (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Note on Citations and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I: The Discourse
- 1 The Discourse on the Strange
- 2 The Historian of the Strange's Self-introduction
- PART II: The Tales
- 3 Obsession
- 4 Dislocations in Gender
- 5 Dream
- Conclusion: The Painted Wall
- Appendix: Translations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Character List
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 29, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6595-2
- OCLC:
- 1312725755
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