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- Zhiguai xiaoshuo, translated as "tales of the miraculous", "tales of the strange", or "records of anomalies", is a type of Chinese literature which appeared...
- thousand-year-old fox spirit. See also: Shenmo ("Gods and Demons") literature, Zhiguai ("Records of the Strange") Literature Yaoguai are often the antagonists...
- belief in karma and retribution." "The Painted Skin" utilises both the zhiguai and chuanqi styles of writing in bringing out "the ghost's critical and...
- Pu Songling, comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales" in the zhiguai and chuanqi styles, which according to some critics, served to implicitly...
- Chinese Buddhism. It was used under the Ming Dynasty to reconstruct older zhiguai collections. Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton...
- (chuanqi genre, as exemplified by the Renshi zhuan) and earlier wonder tales (Zhiguai genre) has also been proposed. The trope of the fox as femme fatale in...
- are also called Tang chuanqi or chuanqi wen. Chuanqi originated from the zhiguai xiaoshuo of the Six Dynasties, was first formed in Early Tang dynasty,...
- represented in early Chinese texts, including histories, dynastic penal codes, zhiguai xiaoshuo and biji works, and early prose works such as the Shangshu. Three...
- Zhì; Wade–Giles: I2-chien1 chih4; lit. 'Record of Yijian') is a Chinese zhiguai story collection by Hong Mai of the Southern Song dynasty. It originally...
- originality. In the development of Chinese fiction, the huaben are heirs of the zhiguai xiaoshuo, chuanqi, bianwen (Buddhist tales), and are the predecessors of...