Strange Tales from the Idle Studio
Strange Tales from the Idle Studio (also translated as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio), Liaozhai zhiyi, or Liaozhai, is a collection of short stories compiled by the Qing dynasty scholar Pu Songling. By telling stories about fox spirits, ghosts, transcendents, and demons, he successfully portrays a great number of archetypes.
《聊齋》到底有怎樣的藝術魅力?
在清初,文言小說有很好的發展,尤其是蒲松齡的《聊齋》。《聊齋》寫鬼寫妖,詭異幻誕,是廣義的神話。其宗旨卻在表現現實,種種神異的形象結構多是顯示與強化現實本質的藝術手段。
Tang Dynasty Chuanqi (tales)
Tangchuanqi(literally “transmitting the strange”) is a term coined in China during the 1920s for short stories, anecdotes, and tales with fantastical, mystical, and legendary elements written in classical Chinese.
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