"Nan Jun" Jiang Haonan and "Commander of the North" Hong Beifei were the most dazzling constellations in the martial arts world. They shone brightly like the sun and moon in the sky. Duo Xiong's confrontation between the North and the South became the main theme of this flourishing Jianghu. As a daughter of the Wangchuan City, the Overlord Flower, Qin Yue-er, had fled her marriage and fled to Zhenjiang in order to become a victim of the war between the Venerable families. The men of the four noble families poured into Zhenjiang, stirring up the martial arts world. Close]

The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the second of 6 volumes.