This book is a plain-language translation of Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Written during the Qing Dynasty, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of classical Chinese short stories. Through tales of fox spirits, ghosts, immortals, and monsters, it exposes social realities. Its wide-ranging subjects and ingenious plots convey ideas such as opposition to feudalism, and show us that people in ancient times had imaginations just as wild as ours. How many of these stories have you read???
