Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in Weird Fiction

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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Pu Songling

Start date: September 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Selection for September 2022 group read.
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Aug 30, 2022 Zina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: misc, classic, weird-fiction, supernatural

These are interesting ghost stories, apparently really famous and well known in China. The translator did a great job of providing notes and explanations.
This appears to be an important and refined literary work. Even with the translator's notes, most of the beauty and subtlety is likely not coming across; but an interesting read nonetheless.
These short stories are, at the very least, different. ...more

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