Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio is a famous collection of about
500 short stories by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), a writer of the
Qing Dynasty. Fifty-one stories are selected for this English
edition. These stories cover a wide range of subjects, such as
werefoxes and fish spirits and ghosts and monsters that are
personified. Like human beings, they have feelings of good and
evil, beauty and ugliness, love and hatred as well as happiness and
discontent. These mystical stories reflect the social life of the
time in which they were written. Living under a feudal monarchy,
the writer had to criticize the unfairness of the feudal system and
express his indignation by writing of fox spirits and monsters.
Although most of these stories are progressive and written with a
critical slant, some of them still have ideas of feudal
superstition and fatalism. The stories in Strange Tales from
Make-Do Studio are written in simple and straightforward language,
but they are highly structured with complicated plots that often
employ the technique of combining illusion with reality. Some of
these stories are based on popular folk legends and thus have a
plain, folksy style. The ideological and artistic achievements of
Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio have greatly influenced later
novels and operas.
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