Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)

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Songling Pu

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

I. EXAMINATION FOR THE POST OF GUARDIAN ANGEL. [36]

II. THE TALKING PUPILS.

III. THE PAINTED WALL.

IV. PLANTING A PEAR-TREE.

V. THE TAOIST PRIEST OF LAO-SHAN.

VI. THE BUDDHIST PRIEST OF CH'ANG-CH'ING.

VII. THE MARRIAGE OF THE FOX'S DAUGHTER.

VIII. MISS CHIAO-NO.

IX. MAGICAL ARTS.

X. JOINING THE IMMORTALS.

XI. THE FIGHTING QUAILS.

XII. THE PAINTED SKIN.

XIII. THE TRADER'S SON.

XIV. JUDGE LU.

XV. MISS YING-NING; OR, THE LAUGHING GIRL.

XVI. THE MAGIC SWORD.

XVII. THE SHUI-MANG PLANT.

XVIII. LITTLE CHU.

XIX. MISS QUARTA HU.

XX. MR. CHU, THE CONSIDERATE HUSBAND.

XXI. THE MAGNANIMOUS GIRL.

XXII. THE BOON-COMPANION.

XXIII. MISS LIEN-HSIANG.

XXIV. MISS A-PAO; OR, PERSEVERANCE REWARDED.

XXV. JEN HSIU.

XXVI. THE LOST BROTHER.

XXVII. THE THREE GENII.

XXVIII. THE SINGING FROGS.

XXIX. THE PERFORMING MICE.

XXX. THE TIGER OF CHAO-CH'eNG.

XXXI. A DWARF.

XXXII. HSIANG-JU'S MISFORTUNES.

XXXIII. CHANG'S TRANSFORMATION.

XXXIV. A TAOIST PRIEST.

XXXV. THE FIGHT WITH THE FOXES.

XXXVI. THE KING.

XXXVII. ENGAGED TO A NUN.

XXXVIII. THE YOUNG LADY OF THE TUNG-T'ING LAKE.

XXXIX. THE MAN WHO WAS CHANGED INTO A CROW.

XL. THE FLOWER NYMPHS.

XLI. TA-NAN IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER.

XLII. THE WONDERFUL STONE.

XLIII. THE QUARRELSOME BROTHERS.

XLIV. THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO COULDN'T SPELL. [257]

XLV. THE TIGER GUEST.

XLVI. THE SISTERS.

XLVII. FOREIGN [272] PRIESTS.

XLVIII. THE SELF-PUNISHED MURDERER.

XLIX. THE MASTER THIEF.

L. A FLOOD.

LI. DEATH BY LAUGHING.

LII. PLAYING AT HANGING.

LIII. THE RAT WIFE.

LIV. THE MAN WHO WAS THROWN DOWN A WELL.

LV. THE VIRTUOUS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.

LVI. DR. TSeNG'S DREAM.

LVII. THE COUNTRY OF THE CANNIBALS. [324]

LVIII. FOOT-BALL ON THE TUNG-T'ING LAKE.

LIX. THE THUNDER GOD.

LX. THE GAMBLER'S TALISMAN.

LXI. THE HUSBAND PUNISHED.

LXII. THE MARRIAGE LOTTERY.

FOOTNOTES

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Please read the Transcriber's Note at the end of this electronic text.

STRANGE STORIES
FROM A
CHINESE STUDIO.

STRANGE STORIES
FROM A
CHINESE STUDIO.

TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED
BY
HERBERT A. GILES,
Of H.M.’s Consular Service.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
THOS. DE LA RUE & CO.
110, BUNHILL ROW.
1880.
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THOMAS DE LA RUE AND CO., BUNHILL ROW,
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