Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Pu Songling of Zichuan, Shandong, finished the preface to his nearly 500 tales of fox spirits, ghosts and demons in 1679; they were printed in 1766.

1679 CE · 36.64, 117.97 · status: legend

The account

He was said to collect stories by offering tea to passers-by. Fox women such as Lianxiang and Yingning made the work the classic of the genre.

Connections in the atlas

• The Painted Skin

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
2. Wikipedia: Pu Songling