Strange Stories from China: Biographies of Thousand-Year Strange People

Turn to the backside of history and you will see another Chinese legend. There are no princes or generals sitting upright in the temples here, only the Guigu disciples with supernatural powers in the mountains, the ingenious machine craftsmen in the market, and the strange people and strangers who come and go without a trace in the rivers and lakes. From Bian Que, a doctor who could "change hearts" in the pre-Qin Dynasty, to Zhu Liankui who shocked the West with his magic tricks in the Republic of China; from the secret records of Mo Li, a descendant of the Mohist family, spanning thousands of years, to the unknown genealogy of strange people in Tianji Pavilion... This book uses popular and vivid writing style to string together the anecdotes of hundreds of strange people scattered in the gaps of three thousand years of history. Some of them possess unique skills, or some behave eccentrically. They either shine for a moment or disappear silently in the tide of the times. This is a different history belonging to "strangers", and it is also a thousand-year-old song about skills, obsession and inheritance. See how they made waves in the dark side of history and quietly changed the direction of the times. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.