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Zhiguai xiaoshuo,
translated as "tales of the miraculous", "tales of the strange", or "records of anomalies", is a type of
Chinese literature which appeared...
- are also
called Tang
chuanqi or
chuanqi wen.
Chuanqi originated from the
Zhiguai xiaoshuo of the Six Dynasties, was
first formed in
Early Tang dynasty,...
- Pu Songling,
comprising close to 500
stories or "marvel tales" in the
zhiguai and
chuanqi styles,
which according to some critics,
served to implicitly...
- (chuanqi genre, as
exemplified by the
Renshi zhuan) and
earlier wonder tales (
Zhiguai genre) has also been proposed. The
trope of the fox as
femme fatale in...
- spirits.
According to Leo Tak-Hung Chan, the
Notes is the 'most
voluminous zhiguai collection in late
imperial China' as well as one of the most misunderstood...
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Chinese Buddhism. It was used
under the Ming
Dynasty to
reconstruct older zhiguai collections. Buswell,
Robert Jr; Lopez,
Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton...
- century. In the preface, Gu
briefly recounts the
history of what he
calls zhiguai or "strange tales" and
suggests that Dai's
supernatural stories would be...
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belief in
karma and retribution." "The
Painted Skin"
utilises both the
zhiguai and
chuanqi styles of
writing in
bringing out "the ghost's
critical and...
- with
themes from
mythology or
tales of the supernatural; for example, the
Zhiguai (誌怪)
literary genre that
deals with
strange (mostly supernatural) events...
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China traditionally attributed to Liu
Yiqing (刘义庆, 403–442).
Known as
zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies"),
these tales deal with such
topics as immortals...
