Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature
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In Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Fox Scholar (The Fox-teacher), a wealthy Hebei family hires a scholar named Hu to tutor their children.
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Strange Tales from Liaozhai – Ah Bao is a tale of transcendent romance. It follows impoverished scholar Sun Zichu’s obsessive love for the wealthy beauty Ah Bao, weaving fantasy and social conflict to explore love’s transformative power while critiquing human vanity and materialism.
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In “Forty Thousand Coins” from Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio, why did Pu Songling create the character Wang Xiangqian (Wang, the Minister of War)?
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A high official paid a visit to a monastery. The monk in charge, having been notified of this previously, had made meticulous preparations for this occasion.