Strange Tales From Make-Do Studio
Written by Pu Songling, (the Qing dynasty)
English translation by Denis C Mair and Victor H Mair
Published by Foreign Languages Press, 2001
Paperback. 449 pages; Dimensions (inch): 0.12 x 8.00 x 5.08
ISBN: 7119028995
Strange Tales From Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about 500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640-1715), a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Thirty stories are selected for this Chinese-English edition: Candidate for the Post of City God - The Mural - The Theft of Peach - Fox-Girl Qingfeng - Painted Skin - Yingning - Nie Xiaoqian - A Chivalrous Woman - Precious - Ventriloquism - Liancheng - The Raksasas and the Ocean Bazaar - The Criket - Sequel to the Yellow Millet Dream - Miss Yan - Ghost-Girl Xiaoxie - The Inspectorate of Misdeeds - The City o the Mountain - Fairy Qing-E - Ghost-Maiden Huanniang - Ghost-Scholar Yu Qu-E - Phoenix Sprite - Fox-Girl Changting - Rouge - Courtesan Rui Yun - Linen Scarf, the Peony Spirit - Yellow-Bloom - A Fool for Books - Ghost-Girl Wanxia - The Bird Nymph Zhuqing.
These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the time in which they were written.
Living under a feudal monarchy, the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters. Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal superstition and fatalism.
The stories in Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language, but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of Strange Tales fro Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later novels and operas.
汉英对照 经典的回声：聊斋志异选
作者：(清)蒲松龄 (美)马尔 等英
出版社：外文出版社
出版日期：2004-4-1
ISBN：7119028995
丛书名：经典的回声
页数：449
包装：平装
开本：小32开
【内容提要】
本社专事外文图书的编辑出版，几十年来用英文翻译出版了大量的中国文学作品和文化典籍，上自先秦，下迄现当代，力求全面而准确地反映中国文学及中国文化的基本面貌和灿烂成就。这些英译图书均取自相关领域著名的、权威的作品，英译则出自国内外译界名家。每本图书的编选、翻译地程均极其审慎严肃，精雕细琢，中文作品及相应的英译版本均堪称经典。
我们总总值到，这些英译精品，不单有对外译介的意义，而且对国内英文学习者、爱好者及英译工作者，也是极有价值的读本。为此，作者对这此英译精品做了认真的遴选，编排成汉英对照的形式，陆续推出，以飨读者。
这套?经典的回声?丛书包括：中国古代寓言选，太平广记选，孙子兵法 孙膑兵法，宋明平话选，楚辞选，关汉卿杂剧选，汉魏六朝小说选，长生殿，杜甫诗选，聊斋志异选，唐代传奇选，中国现代名家短篇小说选。
【目录】
考城隍 画壁 偷桃 青凤 画皮 婴宁 聂小倩 侠女 阿宝 口技 连城 罗刹海市 促织 续黄梁 颜氏 小谢 考弊司 山市 青娥 宦娘 于去恶 凤仙 长亭 胭脂 瑞云 葛巾 黄英 书痴 晚霞 竹青
