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Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural (Tuttle Classics)
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Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural (Tuttle Classics) Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Hearn, Lafcadio; Cass Ph.D., Victoria [Foreword]

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  • Title Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural (Tuttle Classics)
  • Author Hearn, Lafcadio; Cass Ph.D., Victoria [Foreword]
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tuttle Publishing
  • Date 2011-09-10
  • Features Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0804841373_new
  • ISBN 9780804841375 / 0804841373
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects Supernatural, Tales - China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011002216
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

Summary

Chinese Ghost Stories is selection of the most entertaining traditional Chinese tales of the strange and fantastic. The perfect companion for readers seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons—as well as anyone who just wants to feel a chill run down their spine on a dark, lonely night.

From the publisher

Lafcadio Hearn (1850—1904) was a confirmed admirer of Asian sensibilities and practices. His taste for the eerie and bizarre materializes in his supernaturally focused works, including: In Ghostly Japan (1899), Shadowings (1900) and Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904).

Foreword by Victoria B. Cass noted author and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming and In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China.

Media reviews

"Hearn employs a delicate touch in narrating these stories, which not only enhances their linguistic charm but makes for an exhilarating read. The elegant and dreamy scenes are captivating…"—Bangkok Post

About the author

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born on the Greek island of Lefkas, the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon in the British army and a Greek mother. After his parent's divorce when he was six, he was brought up in Dublin by a great aunt. At the age of nineteen, he went to America, eventually ending up in New Orleans as a newspaper reporter. His flight from Western materialism brought him to Japan in 1890, where he worked for an English newspaper, the Kobe Chronicle, and taught in various schools. In 1896, he began teaching English literature at Tokyo Imperial University, a position he held until 1903, and at Waseda University. Hearn married a samurai's daughter, Koizumi Setsu, became a Japanese citizen and a Buddhist, and changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo. At the young age of 54, he died of a heart attack. Hearn's search for beauty and tranquility, for pleasing customs and lasting values made him a confirmed Japanophile. His keen intellect, poetic imagination, and wonderful clear style permitted him to penetrate to the very essence of things Japanese. He became the great interpreter of things Japanese to the West. Hearn's most famous work is a collection of lectures entitled Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (published posthumously in 1905). His other books on Japan include Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894), Out of the East (1895), Kokoro (1896), Gleanings in Buddha Fields (1897), Exotics and Retrospectives (1898), In Ghostly Japan (1899), Shadowings (1900), A Japanese Miscellany (1901), and Kwaidan (1904).

Foreword by Victoria B. Cass noted author and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming and In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China.