anyone knows about Strange Stories from a ancient Chinese folklore ? who was Pu Song Ling?

Question

I just caught that name from the film chinese ghost story

question only for historical experts.

Answer 1

"Pu Song-ling, a Qing dynasty writer, was born in Shandong province. His most famous work is the Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange (Historical) Stories from a Studio for Leisurely Conversations), a collection of stories about ghosts, spirits, and other extraordinary phenomena. He started writing the Liaozhai stories, which he initially called his "Fox and Ghost Tales," at age thirty and began with an overheard ghost story on that trip to Jiangsu."

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/bio.php?author=Pu+Song-ling

There's another link on the page that gives translations of the stories :-)

Answer 2

Pu Songling (P'u Sung-ling) 1640-1715

Qing dynasty writer. Born in Shandong province. Though well-trained by his father in the classics, he never qualified for public office except for a brief appointment as an aide to a county magistrate in Jiangsu. When he returned to his home town he worked as a private tutor. His most famous work is Liaozhai zhiyi [Strange stories from a Chinese studio], a collection of stories about ghosts and spirits which he began work on at the age of twenty and only completed late in his life.

Answer 3

Pu Songling (Traditional Chinese: 蒲松齡; Simplified Chinese: 蒲松龄; Hanyu Pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade-Giles: P'u Sung-ling) (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was from a poor landlord-merchant family from Zīchuān 淄川 (now Zībó 淄博) in Shandong province. Possibly he was of Mongol ancestry. At the age of nineteen, he received the xiucai degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the gongsheng degree. He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1679). Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan to him.

Answer 4

haven`t a clue there mate!!!!!