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Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written. Living under a feudal monarchy, the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters. Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal superstition and fatalism. The stories in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language, but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later novels and operas.
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- PublisherChina Books & Periodicals
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0835122565
- ISBN 13 9780835122566
- BindingPaperback
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Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio
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Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0835122565
ISBN 13: 9780835122566
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. First English language edition. First edition stated 1989, first English language edition, translated from Chinese by Denis C. & Victor H. Mair. Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China. Softcover without DJ as issued. Condition as new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, spine not creased and not sunned, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. 12mo, XIII + 446 pages. Seller Inventory # 005945
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