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<p>This fascinating new book by Chun-shu Chang and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang follows the career, times, and ideas of P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715) and focuses its discussion on his magnum opus, <i>Liao-chai chih- i</i>, or <i>Tales of the Unusual from the Studio of Deliberation and Musing</i>. P'u lived through the turbulent period of Ming-Ch'ing dynastic transition in the seventeenth century and he aspired, as did millions of young men of his time, to pass the Imperial Civil Service Examinations necessary for securing a government position.</p> <p>While P'u did not attain his goal of becoming a statesman, having failed exam after exam for fifty years, he was not impeded in his intellectual and literary pursuits. When he died in 1715, he left a body of work including over 500 essays, 1,295 poems, 119 lyrics, 18 encyclopedias and handbooks, 20 operas, 100 folk songs, and 500 short stories. He went on to become one of the most well-known scholar-writers and the best known short-story author in Chinese history. The 500 stories in <i>Liao-chai chih-i</i>, which P'u composed in his self-styled capacity as historian, had the most lasting influence of any single work on the shaping of popular c

Author

Chun-shu Chang and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472108220

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities