Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume I Illustrated edition by Songling Pu Literature Fiction eBooks
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This book is an illustrated version of the original Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Songling Pu. “The reader will gain some insight into the abstruse, but at the same time marvellously beautiful, style of this gifted writer. The whole essay—for such it is, and among the most perfect of its kind—is intended chiefly as a satire upon the scholarship of the age; scholarship which had turned the author back to the disappointment of a private life, himself conscious all the time of the inward fire that had been lent him by heaven. It is the key-note to his own subsequent career, spent in the retirement of home, in the society of books and friends; as also to the numerous uncomplimentary allusions which occur in all his stories relating to official life. Whether or not the world at large has been a gainer by this instance of the fallibility of competitive examinations has been already decided in the affirmative by the millions of P‘u Sung-ling’s own countrymen, who for the past two hundred years have more than made up to him by a posthumous and enduring reverence for the loss of those earthly and ephemeral honours which he seems to have coveted so much.”
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume I Illustrated edition by Songling Pu Literature Fiction eBooks
This book is a good collection of Chinese folktales and ghost stories. It's an older translation, which glosses over or censors some things a newer translation would include, which I would normally disapprove of, but it made it so I could read "The Painted Skin" without gagging, and the old-fashioned prose gives the stories an elegance and romanticism I'm not sure a fresher translation would quite equal. This translation also includes some beautiful Chinese paintings. I highly recommend "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," in whatever translation, for fans of Chinese literature and culture.Product details
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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Volume I Illustrated edition by Songling Pu Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book is a good collection of Chinese folktales and ghost stories. It's an older translation, which glosses over or censors some things a newer translation would include, which I would normally disapprove of, but it made it so I could read "The Painted Skin" without gagging, and the old-fashioned prose gives the stories an elegance and romanticism I'm not sure a fresher translation would quite equal. This translation also includes some beautiful Chinese paintings. I highly recommend "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," in whatever translation, for fans of Chinese literature and culture.
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