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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...
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Chinese Buddhism. It was used
under the Ming
Dynasty to
reconstruct older zhiguai collections. Buswell,
Robert Jr; Lopez,
Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton...
- 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,...
- (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...
- Pu Songling,
comprising close to 500
stories or "marvel tales" in the
zhiguai and
chuanqi styles,
which according to some critics,
served to implicitly...
- century. In the preface, Gu
briefly recounts the
history of what he
calls zhiguai or "strange tales" and
suggests that Dai's
supernatural stories would be...
- spirits.
According to Leo Tak-Hung Chan, the
Notes is the 'most
voluminous zhiguai collection in late
imperial China' as well as one of the most misunderstood...
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China has long had pre-genre
stories with
fantastical elements,
including zhiguai,
ghost stories, and
miracle tales,
among others.: 42 It is not uncommon...
- with
themes from
mythology or
tales of the supernatural; for example, the
Zhiguai (誌怪)
literary genre that
deals with
strange (mostly supernatural) events...