In the following excerpt from a review of Chinese Ghost and Love Stories, translated by Rose Quong in 1946, Glick somewhat misleadingly describes this partial collection of Pu's stories as reto...
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The following excerpt is taken from a biographical and critical essay relating P'u's stories about civil-service examinations to his own lifelong inability to pass the examination himsel...
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In the following excerpt, Wu examines P 'u's innovative use of the images, symbols, themes, and motifs of the traditional Chinese fox tale.
Fox Spirits in P'u Sung-ling'...
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In the following excerpt from her book-length study of P 'u's life and works, Zeitlin examines some of Pu's stories within the context of the Chinese cultural condstruct of obsess...
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Critical Essay by Herbert A. Giles
Introduction to Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Boni and Liveright, 1925, pp. xi-xxiii.
A highly regarded English sinologist, Giles, through his numerous ...
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Critical Essay by Martin Buber
Introduction to Chinese Ghost & Love Stories, by P'u Sung-ling, Pantheon, 1946, pp. 9-13.
An Austrian-born Israeli religious and social thinker, Buber ...
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Critical Essay by Jaroslav Prušek
"P'u Sung-ling and His Work," in Chinese History and Literature: Collection of Studies, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1970, pp. 109-38.
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Critical Essay by Chun-shu Chang and Hsueh-lun Chang
"P'u Sung-ling and His 'Liao-chai Chih-I'—Literary Imagination and Intellectual Consciousness in Early Ch...
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Critical Essay by Fatima Wu
"Foxes in Chinese Supernatural Tales (Part I)," in Tam-kang Review, Vol. XVII, No. 2, Winter, 1986, pp. 121-54.
In the following excerpt, Wu demonstrates ...
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Critical Essay by Judith T. Zeitlin
"The Discourse on the Strange," in Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale, Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 15-42.
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Critical Essay by Carl Glick
