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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Vol. 1
Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio Vol. 1 By Songling Pu STRANGE STORIES FROM A CHINESE STUDIO. I. EXAMINATION FOR THE POST OF GUARDIAN ANGEL. MY eldest sister’s husband’s grandfather, named Sung Tao, was a graduate. One day, while lying down from indisposition, an official messenger arrived, bringing the usual notification in his hand and leading a horse with a white forehead, to summon him to the examination for his master’s degree. Mr. Sung here remarked that the Grand Examiner had not yet come, and asked why there should be this hurry. The messenger did not reply to this, but pressed so earnestly that at length Mr. Sung roused himself, and getting upon the horse rode with him. The way seemed strange, and by-and-by they reached a city which resembled the capital of a prince. They then entered the Prefect’s yamên, the apartments of which were beautifully decorated; and there they found some ten officials sitting at the upper end, all strangers to Mr. Sung, with the exception of one whom he recognised to be the God of War. In the verandah were two tables and two stools, and at the end of one of the former a candidate was already seated, so Mr. Sung sat down alongside of him. On the table were writing materials for each, and suddenly down flew a piece of paper with a theme on it, consisting of the following eight words:—“One man, two men; by intention, without intention.” When Mr. Sung had finished his essay, he took it into the hall. -
The University of Chicago Chinese Enchantment
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHINESE ENCHANTMENT: REINVENTING PU SONGLING’S CLASSICAL TALES IN THE REALM OF WORLD LITERATURE, 1880-1920 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BY SHENGYU WANG CHICAGO, ILLINOIS AUGUST 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ v ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................. viii INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter I: In Search of Clues: Herbert Allen Giles’ Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and the Victorian Science of Religion ........................................................................ 25 Introduction: The Indian (Chinese) Rope Trick ........................................................................ 25 I. ............................................ Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio as a Polemical Translation ................................................................................................................................................... 32 1.1 Tales from the Peripheries: Treaty Port Translations of the Liaozhai from -
Monsters and Monstrosity in Liaozhai Zhiyi
Monsters and Monstrosity in Liaozhai zhiyi Sarah Louise Dodd Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of PhD The University of Leeds School of Modern Languages and Cultures East Asian Studies September 2013 ii The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. 2013. The University of Leeds. Sarah Louise Dodd. iii Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Dr. Frances Weightman for her immeasurable support, advice and patience over the last few years. Her enthusiasm for the Liaozhai tales has helped to make the writing of this thesis a hugely enjoyable experience. Thanks are also due to Karen Priestley and Jenni Rauch in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures for all their tireless work. I am very grateful to the AHRC for the funding which made this thesis possible, as well as to the University of Leeds for a travel grant which allowed for a research visit to Shandong. The Department of Chinese Literature at Shandong University, and particularly Professor Yuan Shishuo 袁世碩, provided help and encouragement at a vital stage. And thanks are owed finally to my family and friends for all their incredible support. iv Abstract In Liaozhai zhiyi 聊齋志異, a collection of almost five hundred tales by Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715), young scholars fall in love with beautiful fox spirits or meet ghosts in abandoned temples; corpses walk and men change into birds; hideous apparitions invade the home, bodies become unfamiliar, children are born to women long dead, and things are rarely what they first seem. -
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O tern attonal rs /- v- 23? <Sf /) *J> < MATolc? ?'72 REFER El NY PUBLIC LIBRARY THE BRANCH LIBRARIES 3 3333 08102 4065 G280490 CHINESE FAIRY TALES first Edition, January, 1911. Reprinted, September, 1910 (completing !0,OOo). CHINESE \ FAIRY TALES TOLD IN ENGLISH BY PROF. HERBERT A. GILES, CAMBRIDGE GOWANS & GRAY, LTD., LONDON & GLASGOW LEROY PHIL LIPS,. BOSTON, U.S.A. 1920 This little volume of Chinese fairy tales has been written by Dr. Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge, formerly British Consul at Ningpo, China, and for twenty-six years resident in that country. It is intended as a companion to the Japanese fairy tales published in the same series. It is very interesting to compare the tales in the two volumes. They are equally quaint and delightful, but the national spirit of the Chinese is very different from that of the Japanese, both being reflected in the stories in a thoroughly characteristic manner. A. L. G. PBOPFIHTY OF Ti CITY I THE MAGIC PILLOW ONE day, an old priest stopped at a wayside inn to rest, spread out his mat, and sat down with his bag. Soon afterwards, a young fellow of the neighbour- hood also arrived at the inn ; he was a farm-labourer and wore short clothes, not a long robe like the priest and men who read books. He took a seat near to the priest and the two were soon laughing and talking together. By and by, the young man cast a glance at his own rough dress and said with " a sigh, See, what a miserable wretch I am." " You seem to me well fed and healthy enough," the " in the middle of our replied priest ; why pleasant chat do you suddenly complain of being a ' " miserable wretch ? What pleasure can I find," " retorted the young man, in this life of mine, working every day as 1 do from early morn to late at night ? I should like to be a great general and win battles, or to be a rich man and have fine food and wine, and listen to good music, or to be a great man at court and help our Emperor and bring to that is what I call prosperity my family ; pleasure.