Real life in China at the height of empire : revealed by the ghosts of Ji Xiaolan

Real life in China at the height of empire : revealed by the ghosts of Ji Xiaolan /

"Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experi...

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Main Author: Ji, Yun, 1724-1805 (Author)
Other Authors: Pollard, David E. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 2014
Subjects:
Ji, Yun, > 1724-1805 > Translations into English.
Chinese fiction > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > Translations into English.
Ghost stories, Chinese > Translations into English.
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Anecdotes
short stories.
ghost stories.
Short stories.
Paranormal fiction.
Ghost stories.
Anecdotes.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Spirits, spectres and demons
  • Ghosts
  • Hauntings
  • Foxes
  • Fortune-telling
  • Beyond belief
  • Reincarnation
  • Curiosities
  • The wild west
  • Officialdom
  • Legal dilemmas and disputes
  • Yamen staff
  • Servants
  • Hearth and home
  • Piety and paragons
  • Love pledged and blighted
  • Friends and false friends
  • Personal
  • Dogma and dogmatists
  • Morality
  • Pedants
  • Women
  • Homosexuality
  • Impersonation
  • Fraud
  • Merchants
  • Bandits, brigands and robbers
  • Physical prowess
  • Jesuits in China.

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