Pu Songling
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Pu Songling (Traditional Chinese: 蒲松齡; Simplified Chinese: 蒲松龄; Hanyu Pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade-Giles: P'u Sung-ling) (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was from a poor landlord-merchant family from Zīchuān 淄川 (now Zībó 淄博) in Shandong province. Possibly he was of Mongol ancestry. At the age of nineteen, he received the xiucai degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the gongsheng degree. He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1679). Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xing Shi Yin Yuan Zhuan to him.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 2005 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD, - P'u Sung-ling
- Encyclopædia Britannica
