Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio with New Notes

Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio, a collection of short stories in classical Chinese in the Qing Dynasty, is well-known and well-known both at home and abroad. Pu Songling uses condensed and vivid writing style and romantic and unrestrained imagination, both fantasy and reality, to record the bizarre stories of gods, ghosts and foxes; painting skin and bone, expressing the deep loneliness and anger of social life. There are many editions of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio". The "New Notes on Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" edited by Mr. Zhu Qikai (People's Literature Publishing House, October 1989 edition) has a total of 494 articles, which are collected in manuscripts, Zhuxuezhai manuscripts, and Shandong Museum. The manuscript and the 24-volume manuscript are used as the base copy, with complete search and compilation, careful revision, and detailed and accurate annotations. Major historical events, place names, and laws and regulations are all noted, and allusions in the original work are quoted and evidenced to dig out its depth. The connotation is very beneficial to readers' understanding of the original work. People's Literature Publishing House also selected exquisite illustrations from "Detailed Notes on Strange Tales from Liaozhai" published during the Guangxu period, with both pictures and texts, perfectly showing the style of the original work.