The Caves of Mount Chaya information

"The Caves of Mount Chaya" (Chinese: 查牙山洞; pinyin: Cháya shāndong) is a short story by Pu Songling, first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio...

The grateful dog [ Yi quan (義犬)] 376. One less weight on the heart [ Yang dahong (楊大洪)] 377. Mount Chaya Cave [ Chaya shandong (查牙山洞)] 378. Island of...

Ghost Story (Chinese: 倩女幽魂; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien-nü Yu-hun; lit. 'The Ethereal Spirit of a Beauty') is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy horror film starring...

short story by Pu Songling first published in the third volume of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. The story features He Shican, a homosexual studio...

The Fairies of Liaozhai is a Chinese television series adapted from Pu Songling's collection of supernatural stories titled Strange Stories from a Chinese...

established the international visibility of the Hong Kong New Wave. At the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Technical...

is the sequel to A Chinese Ghost Story and A Chinese Ghost Story II. Though technically a distant sequel, the plot is more of a retelling of the original...

died at the age of 18 and was interred in an old temple in Jinhua, Zhejiang. Nie is coerced to participate in ritual murders in the service of a demon...

up and the two sort out the misunderstanding. But in the middle of the night, rebel soldiers attack the two visitors. After a short skirmish, the rebel...

and Chou Ling-kang, consisting of 35 episodes. It features six independent stories, adapted from the first ten books of Pu's novel. Part I (流光情劫; lit....

instead of Tibetan characters. Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal...

based on the corresponding stories in the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Adapted from six tales of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, the plot begins...

as one of the best and best-known entries in Strange Tales; in particular, its textual detail and in-depth characterisation are lauded. "The Painted...

nominee. The film was an inspiration for the 1987 film A Chinese Ghost Story. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the country...

in the 2014 English translation by Sidney L. Sondergard. The pious people who reside in the Han river region in Hubei, China, live in fear of the almighty...

Chinese Studio. Told in two parts, the story follows the adventures of scholar-merchant Ma Ji, and is one of the first Strange Tales entries to be translated...

out of the cave. Jia returns home but finds his neighbourhood virtually unrecognisable—reminiscent of the legend of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao. Unaware of his...

Studio (1740). The story follows the misadventures of An Daye — after the titular princess enters his life — and subsequently those of his two sons. Lulong...

Brief Guide, like the diet of a cricket and the different types of cricket, are incorporated in Pu's short story, while other phrases in the guidebook are...

of Pu's use of "metatextual comment" (i.e. appending an anecdote in the postscript) to reinforce the theme of the main narrative – in this case the loss...