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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.
Allan Barr writes that it was probably part of the opening volume of ghost stories (c. 1670s–1683) in the original eight-volume incarnation of Strange Tales. [2] The story has been translated into English, including in the first volume of Sidney L. Sondergard's Strange Tales from Liaozhai (2008) as "Sixth Brother Wang". [3]
Written by Pu Songling some time between the early 1670s and the early 1700s, the story titled "Lu Pan" (陸判) was first published in 1766 in Pu's collection Liaozhai zhiyi. [14] [15] [16] The collection was translated by Herbert Giles as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (1880), with the story titled "Judge Lu". Although Giles apparently ...
Originally titled "Zhu weng" (祝翁), "Old Man Zhu" was written by Pu Songling probably in or before 1682 [1] when he was around 40 years old and first published in his 18th-century anthology Liaozhai zhiyi or Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.
Barr, Allan (June 1985). "A Comparative Study of Early and Late Tales in Liaozhai zhiyi". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 45 (1): 157– 202. doi:10.2307/2718961. JSTOR 2718961. Kow, Mei-Kao (1998). Ghosts and Foxes in the World of Liaozhai Zhiyi. Minerva Press. ISBN 9780754101703. Sondergard, Sidney (2008). Strange Tales from Liaozhai. Vol. 1.
Originally titled "Hu Dagu" (胡大姑), the story was first published in Pu Songling's anthology of close to five hundred short stories, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi. The story has been translated into English, including in the third volume of Sidney L. Sondergard's Strange Tales from Liaozhai (2008) as "Elder Sister ...
20th-century cover illustration from Xu Huangliang: Volume 10 of Select Tales from Liaozhai. Starting from the third century, early Chinese writers were already questioning the significance of their existence through creative expression, such as in the fifth-century compilation A New Account of the Tales of the World, where Liu Yiqing writes of "Yang Lin's World inside a Pillow", or Shen ...