13. Two Ghost Stories from Liaozhai's Records of the Strange by Pu Songling (1640–1715)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Acknowledgments XIII
5. Editors' Introduction 1
6. Guide for Students and Teachers 9
7. 1. Biography of the Daoist Saint Wang Fengxian by Du Guangting (850–933) 17
8. 2. Biography of the Great Compassionate One of Xiangshan by Jiang Zhiqi (1031–1104) 31
9. 3. The Book of Filial Piety for Women Attributed to a Woman Née Zheng (ca. 730) 47
10. 4. Funerary Writings by Chen Liang(1143–1194) 71
11. 5. "The Customs of Various Barbarians" by Li Jing (1251–?) 85
12. 6. Selected Writings by Luo Rufang (1515–1588) 103
13. 7. Final Instructions by Yang Jisheng (1516–1555) 119
14. 8. "Record of Past Karma" by Ji Xian (1614–1683) 135
15. 9. "Letter to My Sons" by Gu Ruopu (1592–ca. 1681) 149
16. 10. Personal Letters in Seventeenth-Century Epistolary Guides 155
17. 11. Letters by Women of the Ming-Qing Period 169
18. 12. Selected Short Works by Wang Duanshu (1621–after 1701) 179
19. 13. Two Ghost Stories from Liaozhai's Records of the Strange by Pu Songling (1640–1715) 197
20. 14. Two Biographies by Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) 217
21. 15. Poems on Tea-Picking 231
22. 16. Drinking Wine and Reading "Encountering Sorrow”: A Reflection in Disguise by Wu Zao (1799–1862) 239
23. 17. A Brief Record of the Eastern Ocean by Ding Shaoyi (fl. 1847) 253
24. 18. The "Eating Crabs" Youth Book 263
25. Glossaries and References 283
26. Contributors 309