Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a short novel collection of ancient Chinese including 431 short ones, depicted series of stories of spirit figures such as beautiful and kind-hearted ghosts who change into human shape and marry the poor young scholor to repay his former favor and greedy toists who do every evil things they can to gain their purpose or other spirits based on forklores and legendary stories.
Since Pu Songling, the writer of the book, born in late Qing dynasty had experienced the oppression of the feudal system himself, especially the system of imperial examinations ,he make a profound exposition of the darkness of the society of which there are quite mang reflections in his stories.
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio ,as a active work of romanticism ,create many beautiful imaginary females of flower or fox spirits with great might to go everywhere freely or do things common people can not and some moving love stories between the ghosts and young scholors, menifesting the author's dream to break through the fetter of reality.With its other features of language or stucture etc,the book is favored as the symbol work to make a new epoch of short story in chinese literature history.
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