STRANGE STORIES

FROM A

CHINESE STUDIO. original title: Liaozhai zhiyi. This is a celebrated collection of nearly 500 supernatural tales from the early Qing Dynasty.

By P'u Sung-ling Modern spelling: Pu Songling (1640–1715). He was a scholar who spent his life collecting local folklore and ghost stories.

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED

HERBERT A. GILES,

Of His Majesty's Consular Service. Herbert Giles was a prominent British diplomat and sinologist who later became a professor of Chinese at Cambridge University; he is best known for the Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME 1.

LONDON:

THOMAS DE LA RUE & CO.

110, BUNHILL ROW.

1880.