Pu Songling

Broschiertes Buch

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)

Übersetzer: Giles, Herbert A

Beschreibung

Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century

Autor

Songling Pu, 1640-1715, was an author of China's Qing Dynasty. He spent the bulk of his life working as a private tutor, during which time he collected the stories that were to be published to great acclaim as Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Herbert A. Giles (1845-1935) was one of the most acclaimed Sinologists of his era and the Chair of Chinese at Cambridge. He is one of the creators of the "Wade-Giles" system of romanization, the author of several Chinese-English dictionaries, and translator of numerous classics, such as Gems of Chinese Literature and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Victoria B. Cass received her doctorate in Chinese language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming and In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 134mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780804849081
• ISBN-10: 0804849080
• Artikelnr.: 45633859