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Occupation
  
Writer

Role
  
Writer

Language
  
Classic Chinese

Parents
  
Pu Pan

Nationality
  
Chinese

Children
  
Pu Ruo

Name
  
Pu Songling


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Born
  
5 June 1640 (
1640-06-05
)

Notable works
  
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

Died
  
February 25, 1715, Zibo, China

Movies
  
Painted Skin, A Chinese Ghost Story, Mural

Books
  
Strange Stories from a Ch, Wailing Ghosts, Strange tales from make‑do, Selected Tales of Liaozhai, Strange Tales of a Lonely St

Similar People
  
Cao Xueqin, Luo Guanzhong, Gordon Chan, Wu Cheng'en, Shi Nai'an

Yu hui chang composing pu songling s bizarre tales


Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai zhiyi).

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Wild dog by pu songling


Biography

Pu was born into a poor merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, in Zibo, Shandong). At the age of 18, he received the Xiucai degree in the civil service examination; it was not until he was 71 that he was awarded the Gongsheng degree for his achievement in literature rather than for passing the Imperial examinations.

He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in 1740. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.

Translations of his work

  • Strange Tales from Liaozhai (tr. Sidney L. Sondergard). Jain Pub Co., 2008. ISBN 978-0-89581-001-4.
  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (tr. John Minford). London: Penguin, 2006. 562 pages. ISBN 0-14-044740-7.
  • Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio (Zhang Qingnian, Zhang Ciyun and Yang Yi). Beijing: People's China Publishing, 1997. ISBN 7-80065-599-7.
  • Strange Tales from Make-do Studio (Denis C. & Victor H. Mair). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
  • Strange Tales of Liaozhai (Lu Yunzhong, Chen Tifang, Yang Liyi, and Yang Zhihong). Hong Kong: Commercial Press, 1982.
  • Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisure (George Soulie). London: Constable, 1913.
  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (tr. Herbert A. Giles). London: T. De La Rue, 1880. ISBN 1-4212-4855-7.
  • Songling Pu (1880). Strange stories from a Chinese studio, Volume 2. VOL. II. PRINTED BY THOMAS DE LA RUE AND CO., BUNHILL ROW, LONDON: T. De la Rue & co. Retrieved March 21, 2012.  LONDON : THOS, DE LA RUE & CO. 1120, BUNHILL ROW. Translated by Herbert Allen Giles, Original from the New York Public Library, Digitized Apr 3, 2008

    • References

    Pu Songling Wikipedia
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