Stories from a Chinese Studio Episode One: Pu Songling and Liaozhai Zhiyi

Where should we start then? It would be interesting to start with stories from Pu Songling and his very famous collection of short stories called Liaozhai Zhiyi, which has enjoyed quite a literary afterlife following its completion around 1705. To explore his stories of the strange, these tales of were-beasts, is to understand what it means to be human.