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The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts his previous incarnations, a woman out-foxes the fox-spirit that possesses her, a child bride gives birth to a thimble-sized baby, a ghostly city appears out of nowhere and a heartless daughter-in-law is turned into a pig. In his tales of humans coupling with shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes back the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.

蒲鬆齡（1640年06月05日－1715年02月25日），字留仙，又字劍臣，彆號柳泉居士，清代著名的小說傢，著有文言文短篇小說集《聊齋誌異》。現山東省淄博市淄川區洪山鎮蒲傢莊人。世稱聊齋先生，自稱異史氏，他齣身沒落地主傢庭，連續四次參加舉人考試而全部落榜。直到72歲赴青州補為貢考。郭沫若先生為蒲氏故居題聯，贊蒲氏著作“寫鬼寫妖高人一等，刺貪刺虐入骨三分”，老捨也評價過蒲氏“鬼狐有性格，笑罵成文章”。