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Deceiving Shadows
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Pu Songling
428?books89?followersPu Songling (simplified Chinese: ÆÑËÉÁä; traditional Chinese: ÆÑËÉýg; pinyin: P¨² S¨ngl¨ªng; Wade¨CGiles: P'u Sung-ling, June 5, 1640¡ªFebruary 25, 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
Pu was born into a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan (×Í´¨, now Zibo, Shandong). At the age of nineteen, he received the gongsheng degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the xiucai degree.
He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.
Pu was born into a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan (×Í´¨, now Zibo, Shandong). At the age of nineteen, he received the gongsheng degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the xiucai degree.
He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.
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December 15, 2020
Tragic stuff here, but an excellent tale.
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