Pu Songling

Pu Songling was born on 5 June 1640 in Zichuan, in Shandong, into a family of poor merchants. Admitted young to the first degree of the examinations, he spent most of his life as a tutor, an obscure provincial schoolmaster according to Britannica, and received the title of gongsheng only late in life, in tribute to his writings. For some forty years he collected the tales of his book, printed only fifty years after his death. Some also attribute to him a vernacular-language novel about an unhappy marriage. He died in Zichuan on 25 February 1715.

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• TaleStrange Tales from a Chinese Studio聊齋誌異Pu Songling · 1679Literature