# Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Author: Pu, Songling, 1640-1715; Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43627

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Strange+Stories+from+a+Chinese+Studio%2C+Vol.+1+%28of+2%29+Pu&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I.--PERSONAL.--The public has, perhaps, a right to be made acquainted with the title under which I, an unknown writer, come forward as the translator of a difficult Chinese work. In the spring of 1867 I began the study of Chinese at H.B.M.’s Legation, Peking, under an implied promise, in a despatch from the then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that successful efforts would be rewarded by proportionately rapid advancement in the service of which I was a member. Then followed a long novitiate of utterly uninteresting and, indeed, most repellent labour,--inseparable, however, from the acquisition of this language, which throughout its early stages demands more from sheer memory than...

## Chapters

- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-vol-1-of-2-43627/chapters/1/index.md)