num_pages: 350
description: This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.
language: English
title: Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale
titlecomplete: Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale
genres: Chinese Literature, China, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Stanford University Press