Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

About this film

LibriVox recording of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2 by Songling Pu. (Translated by Herbert Allen Giles.) Read in English by Nick J. Gold; Holly Jenson; ToddHW; realisticspeakers; Gerwin Kramer; Mary Escano; Christi Lupher; James K. White; Eva Davis; Mayah; Idan M; jftocanada; Kalynda; timli; Chee Sing Lee; Harry Benjamin; Chuck Williamson; Nemo; ysevechan "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. He borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The cast of characters includes vixen spirits, ghosts, scholars, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the…

Directors & creators

Songling Pu

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;librivox; short stories; chinese; fables; ghosts; china; myths and legends; eastern

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