Pu Songling

Pu Songling () (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer. He notably wrote the fiction Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1679) during the Qing dynasty.

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He was born and died in Tzu-ch'uan in the Shandong province and worked as a school teacher. He was a failed scholar and decided to give up his dream of becoming an official. He opened a tea house and invited his guests to tell stories, then he would compile the tales and write them. These were compiled into his Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The work has 431 tales and was instantly popular even though writen in the vernacular. The choise of subject matter, unusual/supernatural, was very strange at the time.

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Many of his tales have been made into films. One of these films is called A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂) by Tsui Hark (徐克), a Hong Kong director.

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