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Seeing Ghosts: Reading Notes on Ancient Chinese Strange Novels

There Is A Ghost

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This book is a selection of articles about ancient Chinese ghost culture written by the well-known columnist "Youguijun" in recent years. The author combed through China's unique ghost novels, sorted out various speculations and imaginations of the ancients about the ghost world, and spliced ​​them together to depict a series of aspects such as politics, economy, culture, and daily life in the ancient ghost world. The themes are divided into: daily life of ghosts, various forms of ghosts, exploring the underworld, between humans and ghosts, and the family of spirits and monsters, etc. The author combs through the classics with a detective's eye, collects anecdotes, and tells a sad, ridiculous, terrifying and lovely world of ghosts.