num_pages: 338
description: Beginning in 1789 Ji Yun published five volumes of weird tales and ghost stories that mixed supernatural autobiographical accounts with early speculative fictions. Blending insights into Chinese magic and metaphysics with tales of cannibal villages sentient fogs alien encounters and fox spirits; as well as accounts of soul swapping haunted cities and the jiangshi (the Chinese vampire); there is no literary work quite like that of Ji Yun.
language: English
title: The Shadow Book of Ji Yun
publisher: Empress Wu Books