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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2005
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Stories

1 - Examination for the Post of Guardian Angel (Nov-2012)
2 - The Talking Pupils (Nov-2012)
3 - The Painted Wall (Nov-2012)
4 - Planting a Pear Tree (Nov-2012)
5 - The Taoist Priest of Laoshan (Nov-2012)
6 - The Buddhist Priest of Changqing (Nov-2012)
7 - The Marriage of the Fox's Daughter (Nov-2012)
8 - Miss Jiao Nuo (Nov-2012)
11 - The Fighting Quails (Nov-2012)
12 - The Painted Skin (Nov-2012)
14 - Judge Lu (Nov-2012)
15 - Miss Yingning, or the Laughing Girl (Nov-2012)
16 - The Magic Sword (Nov-2012)
17 - The Shui-Mang Plant (Nov-2012)
18 - Little Zhu (Nov-2012)
22 - The Boon Companion (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, suc...



  • Written during the early Qing Dynasty, “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” is a collection of nearly 500 mostly supernatural tales by Chinese author Pu Songling. The work, which was published posthumously sometime between 1740 and 1766, is comp...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, commonly known in China as the Liao Zhai, was first published in 1740, although it existed in manuscript form before then. Little is known about the author Pu Songling, except that he completed the lowest (or ba...




  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...






  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...




  • The Painted Skin

    A story from Strange Stories of Liaozhai: In the Ming Dynasty, there was a pair of brothers in Shanxi, Wang Chongwen and Wang Chongwu. Chongwen became a scholar when he was young and he thought he could make rapid advancem...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited them with a more modern format, including punctuation and styling, to mak...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. The Shui-Mang Plant is one of the collection's longest and most compelling stories. Broomhandle Books has edited ...



  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, commonly known in China as the Liao Zhai, was first published in 1740, although it existed in manuscript form before then. Little is known about the author Pu Songling, except that he completed the lowest (or ba...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...






  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them ...



  • This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make th...



  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, commonly known in China as the Liao Zhao, was first published in 1740, although it existed in manuscript form before then. Little is known about the author Pu Songling, except that he completed the lowest (or ba...



  • '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 bo...



  • The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Songling PuThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes I and II)2 - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Vol. I ...



  • Pu Songling (1640-1715), of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a total of 498 romantic short stories in classic Chinese during 40 years. This is a great miracle in the history of Chinese literature. The writer bravely exposed social contradictions and evils, se...



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    Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures gathers twenty-five stories from Pu Songling's collection of more than four hundred short stories-exquisitely amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. His work depar...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pu Songling has published 27 books.

Pu Songling does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Romance of Ghosts, Foxes and Immortals, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Pu Songling, Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio, was published in January 2005.

Yes. Pu Songling has 1 series.