This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

【作者简介】 蔡九迪（Judith T. Zeitlin），1988年获得哈佛大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学东亚语言文明系讲座教授，主要研究方向为明清文学、戏剧和视觉文化。著有《异史氏：蒲松龄与中国文言小说》《芳魂：明末清初中国文学中的女鬼与性别》《蔡九迪自选集》等。目前，正与中国作曲家合作创作《聊斋》题材歌剧，并计划开展《聊斋志异》全书的英译工作。 【译者简介】 任增强，文学博士，山东大学儒学高等研究院副教授，国家重点文化工程“全球汉籍合璧工程”研究编编辑室主任，兼任文化与旅游部–北京语言大学共建“中国文化对外翻译与传播研究中心”研究员，全国高校海外汉学研究学会理事，主要研究方向为海外汉学与汉籍。出版著作有《英美聊斋学研究》和《中国文化概要》（英文版）。围绕汉学与汉籍发表论文多篇，部分文章被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》以及人大复印资料等摘编转载。...(展开全部)

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and difference...(展开全部)

Book Description Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poet...(展开全部)

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate co...(展开全部)

Late one night, exploring ther father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hiden in the depths of history. Comme...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)

What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that the parable is the secret model of all narrative, every act of creation tenacious...(展开全部)