![]() Remarkable and different compared to the books we are used to, with only one problem, the size of the Greek edition compared to the English one. Ghosts, foxes, dreams and Taoists are the dominant themes of these stories and often have a special way of teaching morality and instructing life mysteries, at least the way Chinese saw those mysteries at the time. In a way he was the Chinese equivalent of the Grimm Brothers.Īll the stories in this book introduce as in a Chinese philosophy, a Chinese way of thinking in many different ways. ![]() ![]() His continuous failures to pass the next exam level that would promote him in the hierarchy led him to start collecting and recording stories from different provinces of China. He was a teacher who managed to pass his first exams and became a member of China’s public administration. ![]() Pu Songling (1640 – 1715)was not a writer, not in the way we define a writer today. Its long history, its tremendous distance from western world (you only have to think that true relations between China and Europe were developed during the 13 th century) and last but not least our great cultural differences have painted Far East and of course China in mysterious colors. Year: 1880 (Original English Edition), 2016 (Greek Edition)Ĭhina has always been a land of mystery. Title: Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio ![]()
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