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The Fairies of Liaozhai is a Chinese television series adapted from Pu Songling's collection of supernatural stories titled Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.The series is produced by Chinese Entertainment Shanghai and stars Nicky Wu, Fann Wong, Qu Ying, Daniel Chan, Lin Chia-yu, Pan Yueming, Sun Li and Cecilia Liu. [1]
It was translated into English as "The Shui-mang Plant" by British sinologist Herbert Giles in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1880), [1] which is widely regarded as the first substantial translation of Liaozhai. [6] The story was also included in the first volume of Strange Tales from Liaozhai by Sidney Sondergard published in 2008. [2]
Liaozhai zhiyi, sometimes shortened to Liaozhai, known in English as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio, or literally Strange Tales from a Studio of Leisure, is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" [1] in the zhiguai and chuanqi ...
The story was originally titled "Huapi" (畫皮) and first appeared in Pu Songling's anthology of supernatural tales, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai) in 1740. [10] It was first translated into English as "The Painted Skin" by the British sinologist Herbert A. Giles and was included in his 1880 translation of Strange Tales.
Nie Xiaoqian is a fantasy story in Pu Songling's short story collection Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, and the name of its female lead character. [1] Pu describes her appearance as "gorgeous; girl in paintings" (traditional Chinese: 艷絕；畫中人; simplified Chinese: 艳绝；画中人).
Since then, several other English translations of "Ge yi" have been published, including in the third volume of Sidney L. Sondergard's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (2009), [9] and in Selected Tales from Liaozhai (1981). [10] The story was translated into French as "Des pigeons extraordinares" by Li Tche-houa. [11]
The story was first published in 1740 in an anthology of short stories by Pu Songling titled Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, or Liaozhai Zhiyi. The title "Tian Qilang" (田七郎) is loosely translated as "Seventh Master Tian", Tian (田) being the surname of the titular character. [ 5 ]
The story first appeared in Pu Songling's anthology of supernatural tales, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai) in 1740. It was included in the fifth volume of Sidney L. Sondergard's English translation of Liaozhai, published in 2012. [1] "Zhang Hongjian" significantly contains one of the earliest references to ghost-writers, proving ...