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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

work by Pu Songling

Also known as: “Liaozhai zhiyi”

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Chinese literature

In Chinese literature: Prose fiction
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio). This collection, completed in 1679, was reminiscent of the early literary tale tradition, for it contained several Tang stories retold with embellishments and minor changes to delineate the characters more realistically and to make the plots more probable. Such…
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In Pu Songling
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) resuscitated the classical genre of short stories.
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