The Asia-Pacific market for polyurethanes is catching fire again. PRA talks up the industry with exhibitors at Utech 2000. The polyurethanes industry has got over Asian flu faster than many other areas of the plastics world. As PRA discovered at the recent...

CardioTech targets vein market WOBURN, Mass.--Sometimes you have to take a step back to take two steps forward. That's what CardioTech International Inc., a Woburn medical device manufacturer, has discovered. The research company, which makes medical-grade thermoplastic polyurethanes and implantable...

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 obsession. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the development of an obscure or unusual addiction, compulsion, mania, or craving became a fashionable pursuit of the intelligentsia and occasioned many works of literature and art.

"P'u Sung-ling and His 'Liao-chai Chih-I'—Literary Imagination and Intellectual Consciousness in Early Ch'ing China," in Renditions, Vol. 13, Spring, 1980, pp. 60-81. In the following essay, the critics provide a thematic overview of P'u's Liaozhai zhiyi.

"The Discourse on the Strange," in Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale, Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 15-42. In the following essay, Zeitlin reviews how P'u's Strange Stories has been received over time and comments on the many varied interpretations of the stories.