# Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes 1 and 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/43629 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Strange+Stories+from+a+Chinese+Studio+%28Volumes+1+and+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-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/29/index.md) - [Part 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/32/index.md) - [Part 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/43/index.md) - [Part 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/strange-stories-from-a-chinese-studio-volumes-1-and-2-43629/chapters/41/index.md) - 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