Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature
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This essay interprets Liaozhai’s Ghosts Weeping against the Xie‑Qian Rebellion. It analyzes turncoat official Wang Qixiang, arguing Pu Songling uses ghosts to satirize worldly power and stress that virtue outweighs secular authority.
There was a man named Xu who lived outside the north gate of Zichuan in Shandong Province and made a living by fishing.