Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford's superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling's classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (also known as Strange Tales from Liaozhai). With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and
Macabre tales of the supernatural and taboo from 1600’s China, by prodigious scholar Po Chung-Ling, founding father of Hip-Horror. Cultish and banned in its time, obscure for the most part of 20th Century, a classic today. Ethereal, romantic, gruesome,
This is the first of a three-volume picaresque historical romance by China's best-loved author. It tells the story of Trinket, an irreverent and comic anti-hero, and his adventures through China over more than twenty years at the beginning of the Qing dyn
